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Haiti Diary

outline map of Haiti
outline map of Haiti

The Royal Navy Team consists of 4 personnel from Joint Force headquarters:

1 x Major Royal Marines

1 x Lieutenant Commander Royal Navy (Medical)

1 x Lieutenant Commander Royal Navy

1 x Warrant Officer Communications


 

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  • Haiti Diary
    Haiti Diary13th Feb 2010
    It was the one month anniversary of the earthquake last Fridayi and the country as a whole spent the weekend in mourning.
  • Haiti Diary
    Haiti Diary11th Feb 2010
    It rained heavily for the first time last night, signalling that the wet season is not far away. The priority has to be shelter.  A visit to Centre Ville a couple of days ago saw every spare piece of land covered in makeshift camps.
  • Haiti Diary
    Haiti Diary5th Feb 2010
    Day 14 in the big green tent. We left the shores of the UK two weeks ago today, and it seems a lot longer.
  • Haiti Diary
    Haiti Diary5th Feb 2010
    The self-styled COMBRITFOR ( Combined British Force) is reverting to ‘type’ and now busying himself with arranging the Team’s first RPC function.
  • Haiti Diary
    Haiti Diary4th Feb 2010
    The general feeling around the camps, compounds and Port-Au-Prince itself is that the situation is improving albeit slowly.  With the scale of devastation seen when the team travels around the city and its surroundings,
  • Haiti Diary
    Haiti Diary29th Jan 2010
    We continue to make friends with the military from the other nations, it is like being in a club amongst the Aid agencies .
  • Haiti Diary
    Haiti Diary28th Jan 2010
    Today was one of sadness as we lost the majority of our team as they returned to ‘blighty’ after a job well done.
  • Haiti Diary
    Haiti Diary27th Jan 2010
    A day of mixed feelings and of battles won and lost. The first of these was a battle of the 2 titans:  one from the Royal Navy element of the Joint Forces Headquarters
  • Haiti Diary
    Haiti Diary27th Jan 2010
    After joining Joint Force Headquarters a matter of 3 weeks earlier, the organisation has swung into action and deployed to Haiti in support of Department for International Development.
  • Haiti Diary
    Haiti Diary27th Jan 2010
    It’s 0500 and I wake to the chant that I can only recognise as a ‘call to pray’.  Strange, I am sure that I am in Haiti not Iraq or Afghanistan..
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