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From Pentagon Producer Larry Shaughnessy:
Today in the Pentagon briefing, Joint Chief Chairman Adm. Mullen mentioned that the aircraft carrier Carl Vinson is more than floating airport – it’s also a floating medical clinic with 3 operating rooms and 51 beds and it’s a floating water treatment plant capable of making “hundreds of thousands of gallons” fresh water a day.
In fact, every US Navy warship has to be able to make fresh water for sailors to drink, cook with, clean their clothes and equipment with.
As for the USS Carl Vinson… The Navy says it takes sea water and through a series of high pressure filters and reverse osmosis creates 400,000 gallons of purified fresh drinking water each day. Since the Carl Vinson, which in normal combat duty would be carrying about 5,000 people, is only carrying 3,200 people… they have a large surplus of fresh water that can be sent into Port Au Prince for the victims of the earthquake.
The Navy couldn’t tell me exactly how this water would be moved from the ship to shore in this crisis, but in the past they usually use large flexible bladders that are carried by either heavy lift helicopters of large hovercraft that can go from the ship right up onto a beach and unload.
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Besides plentiful of fresh water USS Carl Vinson (CVN70) is also in a position to transfer extensive quantities of dry stores as part of humanitarian relief.
Sayan.
As far as medical facilities on United States Navy (USN) aircraft carriers are concerned their digital X-ray machines can e-mail images to Bethesda Naval Hospital in Maryland for further consultations.
Sayan.
This is very good Haiti needs water !
This is a very interesting piece of news...lets get more info please. Not only will it help the Haitians but it could help millions of people around the world who are suffering from drought and lack of water....
Hopefully, they can get the water to shore......soon
MUTALLAB'S FATHER SHOULD BE HONOURED
Dear Amanpour.
I had a dream, a dream of Obama praising the Father of the Nigerian Christmas day bomber.for passing information to US intelligence on his son' suspicious movement to Yemen about two weeks before the boy tried to blow up the Detroit bound plane.
The action of the father has never happened in the history of the fight against terrorism. Honouring the father is just fair and will encourage others to do same, since all sucide bombers have parents. and not all parents support Al-Qaida or terrorism..
Publically, honour the man who literally said, look US, I suspect my boy of working for Al-Qaida. Monitor, catch and deal with him if my suspicion is correct.
Amanpour, please tell Presindent Obama to honour the Father and reconsider placing Nigeria on terror list, as there are other fathers in Nigeria who would be encouraged to follow the example of Mutallab's father.
Thank you
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I do not even know how I ended up here, but I thought this post was good. I do not know who you are but certainly you are going to a famous blogger if you aren't already 😉 Cheers!
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Excellent read, I just passed this onto a colleague who was doing a little research on that. And he actually bought me lunch since I found it for him smile Thus let me rephrase that: Thank you for lunch! "A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs." by Mark Twain.
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