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A military helicopter hovers in the air.

March 12, 2024

Leaders Discuss Security Priorities for Western Hemisphere

DOD's top priority is defense of the U.S. homeland against growing multidomain threats posed by China and Russia but emerging technologies are also posing new challenges to strategic stability, defense leaders told Congress.

Lt. Cmdr. Kyle McDonald, from Frankenmuth, Michigan, assigned to the hospital ship USNS Comfort (T-AH20), conducts an oral exam on a patient during Continuing Promise 2022 at a medical site in Jeremie, Haiti, Dec. 16, 2022. Comfort is deployed to U.S. 4th Fleet in support of Continuing Promise 2022, a humanitarian assistance and goodwill mission conducting direct medical care, expeditionary veterinary care, and subject matter expert exchanges with five partner nations in the Caribbean, Central and South America.

Dec. 20, 2022

USNS Comfort Completes Its Final Mission Stop of CP 2022 in Haiti

JEREMIE, Haiti — JEREMIE, Haiti -- U.S. Navy hospital ship USNS Comfort (T-AH 20) completed its fifth and final mission stop of Continuing Promise 2022 in Jeremie, Haiti, Dec. 17, 2022.

Hospital ship USNS Comfort (T-AH 20) sails off the coast of Jeremie, Haiti, Dec. 11, 2022. Comfort is deployed to U.S. 4th Fleet in support of Continuing Promise 2022, a humanitarian assistance and goodwill mission conducting direct medical care, expeditionary veterinary care, and subject matter expert exchanges with five partner nations in the Caribbean, Central and South America.

Dec. 13, 2022

USNS Comfort Arrives in Haiti

JEREMIE, Haiti — JEREMIE, Haiti -- Hospital ship USNS Comfort (T-AH 20) arrived off the coast of Jeremie, Haiti, in support of U.S. Naval Forces Southern Command/U.S. 4th Fleet's Continuing Promise 2022 (CP22) mission, Dec. 11.

A school bus approaches a C-17 Globemaster III Sept. 23, 2022, at March Air Reserve Base, California. A Reserve aircrew from the 301st Airlift Squadron performed a three-day mission Sept. 23 – 25, to move humanitarian cargo to Haiti. Through the Denton Program, three school buses donated from San Diego Unified School District were transported from March ARB to Haiti. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Jonathon Carnell)

Sept. 27, 2022

AFRC Wing at Travis delivers humanitarian aid to Haiti

TRAVIS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. — A Reserve aircrew from the 301st Airlift Squadron performed a three-day mission Sept. 23 – 25, to move humanitarian cargo to Haiti. Through the Denton Program, three school buses donated from San Diego Unified School District were transported from March Air Reserve Base, California, to Haiti.

USS Arlington (LPD 24) sails off the coast of Haiti with an NH90 NATO Frigate Helicopter, left, attached to the Royal Netherlands Navy, and a U.S. Navy MH-60S Sea Hawk helicopter on the flight deck, Aug. 30, 2021.

Sept. 8, 2021

USS Arlington Returns from Humanitarian Mission in Haiti

NORFOLK, Va. — NORFOLK, Va. – The San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock ship USS Arlington (LPD 24) returns to Naval Station Norfolk, Virginia after deploying to U.S. 4th Fleet area of operation to support a humanitarian assistance and disaster relief (HADR) operation in Haiti, Sept. 8.

A service member and several civilians tend to a person in a stretcher on the ground.

Aug. 30, 2021

DOD Continues Aiding Haitians Following Earthquake, Tropical Storm

The U.S. military has flown 560 sorties to Haiti, providing rapid logistical and airlift support, including delivery of more than 348,000 pounds of aid, Army Maj. Gen. William D. "Hank" Taylor said.

U.S. Navy Adm. Craig Faller, Commander of U.S. Southern Command, Administrator Samantha Power with United States Agency for International Development and U.S. Army Col. Steven Gventer, commander of Joint Task Force-Bravo, meet with relief workers in Maniche, Haiti, Aug. 26, 2021.

Aug. 27, 2021

SOUTHCOM, JTF-Haiti Commanders Visit Haitian Communities

U.S. military leaders joined USAID Administrator Samantha Power, U.S. Ambassador to Haiti Michele Sison, and other key leaders Aug. 26 to visit a Haitian community that was hit hard by the Aug. 14 earthquake.

People unload boxes from the cargo hold of a helicopter into a truck.

Aug. 25, 2021

DOD Continues Providing Humanitarian Assistance to Haiti

Joint Task Force Haiti has conducted some 364 full-spectrum missions, using DOD and U.S. Coast Guard assets, which have assisted in saving about 436 lives and delivered vital aid to earthquake victims, according to an official with the Joint Staff.

An MH-60R Seahawk helicopter, assigned “Easyriders” of Helicopter Maritime Strike Squadron (HSM) 37 delivers cargo to the Spearhead-class expeditionary fast transport USNS Burlington (T-EPF-10) Dec. 10, 2020.

Aug. 23, 2021

USS Billings and USNS Burlington Support Haiti Relief

CARIBBEAN SEA — CARIBBEAN SEA - The Freedom-variant littoral combat ship USS Billings (LCS 15) and USNS Burlington (T-EPF-10), a spearhead-class expeditionary fast transport ship, operated by Military Sealift Command are supporting humanitarian assistance and disaster relief operations off the coast Haiti, Aug. 22.

U.S. Marines with 1st Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment (1/6), 2d Marine Division, embark a U.S. Navy landing craft utility with Assault Craft Unit Two in Morehead City, N.C., Aug. 18, 2021. Marines with 1/6 deployed in support of Joint Task Force-Haiti for a humanitarian assistance disaster relief mission. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Patrick King)

Aug. 23, 2021

Marines and Sailors arrive aboard the USS Arlington in support of Haiti disaster relief

CARIBBEAN SEA — Marines and Sailors of 2d Marine Division aboard the San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock ship USS Arlington (LPD 24) arrived in U.S. 4th Fleet area of operations off the coast of Haiti in support of Joint Task Force-Haiti, Aug. 21, 2021.