Posted on 15 January 2010 by Jim Dolbow | Comments
USCGC Tahoma (WMEC-908)
Spencer Hsu of the Washington Post has a gem in today’s issue entitled “Coast Guard cutter delivers medical supplies, help; ‘we saved a lot of lives’”:
There was no time to keep track of how many young patients had been seen Thursday at a U.S.-built medical clinic at a Haitian coast guard station in Killick, 10 miles outside of Port-au-Prince.
At first 10 children came, then 20, then 50. Finally, more than young 100 earthquake victims crowded into the clinic, where crew members of the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Tahoma were delivering desperately needed medical supplies and assistance late into the night.
“It was one of those days where we didn’t keep count. We treated a bunch of kids. We saved a lot of lives,” said Cmdr. Jim Spotts, commanding officer of the Tahoma, weary but still working with his crew at 9:15 p.m. But, he added, “a lot of older people had to wait.”
Sounds like Cdr. Spotts would making an outstanding guest on an upcoming DOD Bloggers Roundtable.
Chuck Hill
Our people, like those on the Tahoma will come back with post tramatic stress problems. I hope we are prepared for it.
FlamingAtheist
Hopefully they still have the critical incident stress teams around, when TWA 800 happened the incident teams were on scene to help debrief those that had to work the disaster (the YN1 from GruGalv deployed as part of that team).
And separately - BZ to the Coasties on the air crews, Tahoma (saw them on the DC news) and other units.
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