FOB Tacoma » haiti http://blog.thenewstribune.com/military Complete coverage of military and veterans issues in the South Puget Sound Fri, 17 May 2013 17:55:27 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Medical units respond to Haitian earthquake http://blog.thenewstribune.com/military/2010/03/25/medical-units-respond-to-haitian-earthquake/ http://blog.thenewstribune.com/military/2010/03/25/medical-units-respond-to-haitian-earthquake/#comments Thu, 25 Mar 2010 20:01:09 +0000 Scott Fontaine http://blog.thenewstribune.com/military/?p=3281 Staff Sgt. Karen Harless thinks often the Haiti’s children: kids of all ages wandering the crumbled streets of Port-au-Prince, their parents nowhere in sight. When they saw American military vehicles, they’d flag them down and ask for food and water.

“The first couple times we saw that it was pretty tough,” said Harless, the platoon sergeant of Joint Base Lewis-McChord’s 153rd Medical Detachment. “I have three kids myself. They were just walking around with nothing to do and nowhere to go.”

Harless was part of a 10-person blood services detachment who left Lewis-McChord in late January to help with the …

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