Lionheart
January 20th, 2010, 06:49
I was watching CNN last night while on KP duty, pealing potatoes.
A CNN reporter that goes to foreign countries to help people (medic) when such catastrophies happen, was doing a little story last night. The first, and only country that showed up within 48 hours of the Earthquake in Haiti was Israel. They sent over two 747's, loaded with personnel and supplies, tents, medical equipment, you name it. It was like a small invasion force.
She went through their camp, showing us things, interviewing their team, showing their high tech equipment setup for such a catastrophie.
They had full field X-ray machines, they would immediately photograph people for recognition for others to be able to find their loved ones. They had tents everywhere. I want to say it was Israel's military as they were all in green uniforms, but I think they have a ton of auxiliary people that activate or volunteer. (In Israel, everyone serves in the military for at least a short period of time so that anyone can help protect their country).
It was many days before any of the rest of the countries had a large place of operation landed there. Israel was the first and was already running people through their base of operations, setting broken bones, helping them to be found be loved ones.
I thought that was pretty darn cool. I salute them. Not many countries are setup for something this devastating. To see that they were so organized was impressive...
I salute Israel... :salute:
Bill
A CNN reporter that goes to foreign countries to help people (medic) when such catastrophies happen, was doing a little story last night. The first, and only country that showed up within 48 hours of the Earthquake in Haiti was Israel. They sent over two 747's, loaded with personnel and supplies, tents, medical equipment, you name it. It was like a small invasion force.
She went through their camp, showing us things, interviewing their team, showing their high tech equipment setup for such a catastrophie.
They had full field X-ray machines, they would immediately photograph people for recognition for others to be able to find their loved ones. They had tents everywhere. I want to say it was Israel's military as they were all in green uniforms, but I think they have a ton of auxiliary people that activate or volunteer. (In Israel, everyone serves in the military for at least a short period of time so that anyone can help protect their country).
It was many days before any of the rest of the countries had a large place of operation landed there. Israel was the first and was already running people through their base of operations, setting broken bones, helping them to be found be loved ones.
I thought that was pretty darn cool. I salute them. Not many countries are setup for something this devastating. To see that they were so organized was impressive...
I salute Israel... :salute:
Bill