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Budget Highlights Book - DON FM&C Website - U.S. Navy

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Rebalancing to Meet Priorities February 2010HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE AND DISASTER RESPONSE (HADR)Building on relationships forged in times ofrelative tranquility, we continue to offerhumanitarian assistance as the vanguard ofinteragency and multinational efforts, bothin a deliberate, proactive fashion and inresponse to crises. Evolving from theunprecedented international disasterresponse for countries devastated during the2004 Asian tsunami, Pacific Partnership hasbeen sponsored annually by the U. S. Pacific Fleet to strengthen internationalrelationships and interoperability for disaster relief throughout Oceania andSoutheast Asia. During Pacific Partnership 2009, from June to September 2009, aninternational team, including members of the U.S. military, Australian DefenseForce, Canadian military, U.S. government agencies, international agencies, andnon‐governmental organizations, treated 22,037 medical and dental patients,repaired 77 pieces of biomedical equipment, tested water sources, sprayed formosquitoes, and completed 17 engineering projects for schools an medical clinics inSamoa, Tonga, Solomon Islands, Kiribati, and the Republic of the Marshall Islands,as well as constructing a bridge in Samoa. The USNS Richard E. Byrd (T‐AKE 4) wasthe enabling platform for this effort, moving nearly 300 tons of cargo andtransporting more than 500 passengers.Operation Continuing Promise, an ongoinghumanitarian effort in the Caribbean and LatinAmerica, is building on partnerships fostered duringthe USNS Comfort’s 2007 deployment and ContinuingPromise 2008 deployments by the USS Boxer (LHD 4)and USS Kearsarge (LHD 3) to the region. In 2009,Commander, U. S. Naval Forces Southern Command(NAVSO) and U. S. 4 th Fleet planned and coordinateda four month mission to provide humanitarian andcivic assistance to Antigua and Barbuda, Colombia,the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Haiti, Nicaraguaand Panama. The USNS Comfort, hosted acollaborative team including personnel from the U. S.military and civil service, non‐governmental organizations, academia and partner1‐6 FY 2011 Department of the <strong>Navy</strong> <strong>Budget</strong>

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