Aerial view of damaged Port Au Prince neighborhood and adjacent emergency shelter camps
Originally uploaded by uscgpress
We have received several comments over on Facebook on our Haitian recovery operations posts. I received the below email from Chief Petty Officer (retired) Ken Lukins. I took the photo from a Clearwater H-60 as we overflew Port Au Prince enroute the Killick Coast Guard Base last Monday.
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"Admiral - may this find you well. I wanted to pass information about the excellent job the CG was doing in Haiti. I met with some of the CG personnel at the embassy during my last trip on the relief effort. Cmdr Bell and LCDR McClain were at the top of their game. I also wish to thank the CG for their assistance in helping me with injured team members - the medical team I was protecting were involved in a bus accident with serious injuries. The CG came through in helping me coordinate aid - through a long, round about way: my calling my wife (a disabled CG vet), her calling the CG and the ball began to move. My best regards and deepest respect. Ken Lukins, Chief, USCG (retired) (I am the Chief who helped brief you and Dick Clark on terrorism issues at the Atlantic Strike Team back what seems another life time ago)."
