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A tiny earthquake survivor gets a check-up from Cpl Petra Sutton of 32 Canadian Forces Health Services Centre in Toronto during a village outreach visit by a DART Mobile Medical Team.

January 31, 2010

Performing a traditional secondary duty of military chaplains, DART padre Capt Shaun Turner checks in customers for a Mobile Medical Team conducting a walk-in clinic in the mountains near Jacmel.

January 31, 2010

Cpl Richard Alam of the Canadian Forces Health Services Centre in Ottawa dresses a leg injury for a woman during a village outreach visit by a DART Mobile Medical Team.

January 31, 2010

Leading Seaman Tyson McNeill of HMCS Halifax helps a resident of Jacmel dig latrine trenches at the École Wolfe, where hundreds of local people left homeless by the 12 January earthquake are bivouacked.

January 26, 2010

Sailors from HMCS Athabaskan clear debris from the playground at Orphanage No. 2, the Orphelinat Chrétien.

January 25, 2010

Lt(N) Terry Wiggins of HMCS Halifax distributes water to children at the World Food Program station in the Pinchinant soccer stadium, where thousands of people left homeless by the earthquake have taken shelter. Force protection personnel from HMCS Halifax work with members of DART Defence & Security Platoon to provide security and crowd control at meal times.

January 22, 2010

Leading Seaman Brad Burden of HMCS Athabaskan brings a hurt little girl to the medics for assessment and treatment.

January 20, 2010

Ship’s steward Able Seaman Paul MacKenzie (foreground) assists medical technician Master Corporal Jean-Paul Somerset as he assesses the condition of a wounded survivor of the 12 January earthquake. AB MacKenzie and MCpl Somerset are members of a medical team from HMCS Athabaskan deployed ashore with the destroyer’s doctor (background) to provide the first emergency care to reach this community.

January 19, 2010

Local people welcome the arrival of the first working parties landed by HMCS Athabaskan.

January 19, 2010

Cpl Sean Shelton of the 3rd Battalion, The Royal Canadian Regiment controls the flow of people into the World Food Program serving line at the Pinchinant soccer stadium. Cpl Shelton is deployed on Op HESTIA as a member of the DART Defence & Security Platoon.

January 22, 2010

At the World Food Program feeding station in the Pinchinant soccer stadium, Pte Doug Luffman of the 3rd Battalion, The Royal Canadian Regiment, deployed as a member of the DART Defence & Security Platoon, ensures security while sailors from HMCS Halifax finish laying out the chute guiding people to the serving line.

January 22, 2010

With pickets, rope and a bullhorn for crowd-control as well as their weapons, members of the DART Defence & Security Platoon and force protection personnel from HMCS Halifax march to the World Food Program feeding station at the Pinchinant soccer stadium.

January 22, 2010

From left: With Trooper James Moffatt of the Royal Canadian Dragoons providing security, search and rescue technicians Master Corporal Jeff Ferguson and Master Corporal Nick Meunier head out to help the crews digging people out of the rubble of collapsed buildings. MCpl Ferguson and MCpl Meunier are members of 424 Squadron from 8 Wing Trenton, Ontario.

January 19, 2010

Members of a Canadian Forces flight crew settle Canadian survivors of the 12 January earthquake for the homeward flight aboard their CC-177 Globemaster III, number CC-177703. This aircraft and its crew belong to 429 Transport Squadron from 8 Wing Trenton, Ontario, the home of Canadian Forces long-range airlift. 8 Wing provides all the military cargo and passenger flights supporting Canada’s humanitarian effort in response to the earthquake in Haiti.

January 17, 2010

In a tent on the grounds of the Canadian Embassy, a little girl sits on her father’s lap to have wounds on her leg cleaned and dressed by medical technician Private Gwenne Morris of 33 Canadian Forces Health Services Centre in Kingston, Ontario. Pte Morris is deployed with the Disaster Assistance Response Team on Operation HESTIA.

January 17, 2010

Canadian Forces members board a CC-177 Globemaster III strategic airlifter at 8 Wing Trenton, Ontario on 14 January 2010. Canada has flown troops; supplies and members of civilian agencies in support of the relief efforts in Port-Au-Prince, Haiti after an earthquake struck the region 12 January 2010.

January 14, 2010

A CC-130 Hercules tactical transport prepares to take off for Haiti, carrying the lead element of the Canadian Forces Disaster Assistance Response Team (DART) and the military equipment and medical supplies they will need as soon as they land. The DART is deploying in response to a massive earthquake that struck less than 20 km from Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

January 13, 2010

Traffic technician Private Brady Williams of 2 Air Movements Squadron tightens the load inside a CC-130 Hercules due to take off at 11:00 a.m. with the lead element of the Canadian Forces Disaster Assistance Response Team (DART). The load is military equipment and medical supplies the DART personnel will need as soon as they hit the ground. The DART is deploying in response to a massive earthquake that struck less than 20 km from Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

January 13, 2010

Members of the Kandahar Provincial Reconstruction Team show off their new official 2010 Vancouver Olympics mittens, brought to Afghanistan by the Honourable Gary Lunn, Minister of State for Sport.

December 25, 2009

Before a night patrol in Martissant, one of the “red zones” of Port-au-Prince, Cdr Christian Haché, LCdr Shekhar Gothi and Maj Justin Schmidt-Clever of Task Force Port-au-Prince (seated centre, with helmets) listen to a patrol brief presented by a Sri Lankan officer using a large-scale map model.

October 18, 2009


 
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