Joint Task Force Caring Response

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US Air Force personnel deliver relief supplies to Burma
US Air Force personnel deliver relief supplies to Burma

Joint Task Force Caring Response is a United States multi-service humanitarian assistance and disaster relief effort for Burmese citizens devastated by recent Cyclone Nargis.

During a delivey by the 36th Airlift Squadron on 19 May to Yangon International Airport in Burma approximately 15,000 pounds of water, water containers, and mosquito netting were unloaded from the a C-130 Hercules aircraft. [1]

Expeditionary Strike Group 7/TF 76 is also standing by off the Myanmar coast in order to be ready to deliver aid should it be allowed to do so.

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  1. ^ JTF Caring Response News Story

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