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unusual facts about disaster relief



Mobile Landing Platform

Unlike the first two Mobile Landing Platforms, MLP-3 and MLP-4 will serve as afloat forward staging bases (AFSB) vessels to support special forces missions, counter-piracy/smuggling operations, maritime security operations, and mine clearance, as well as humanitarian aid and disaster relief missions.

Walter Lee Miller, Jr.

Upon return the MEU was deployed in an humanitarian aid/disaster relief mission to Leyte, The Republic of the Philippines, to support efforts following their disastrous mountain mud slide.


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1985 Chilean telethon

This was the year when Don Francisco formally launched the spin-off disaster relief telethon Chile helps Chile in response to this, and called on the nation to exert its efforts towards rebuilding Valparaiso Province and the Santiago Metropolitan Region.

Abdul Azeez Abdul Rahim

He is also the vice chairman for the UMNO Malaysia Youth Disaster Relief Unit, for the big flood in Kedah 2005.

Andrew Card

In August 1992, at the request of President Bush, Secretary Card coordinated the administration's disaster relief efforts in the wake of Hurricane Andrew.

Assault Craft Unit ONE

Since the September 11 attacks, ACU-1 has operated outside of a strictly military role, providing humanitarian services and disaster relief.

Ba-wan

It is believed that ba-wan were first prepared in the Beidou township of Taiwan by a student by the name of Fàn Wànjū () as food for disaster relief during the late Qing dynasty (1644–1912), when the Beidou region was struck by heavy floods.

Center for Excellence in Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance

CFE Director, LtGen John F. Goodman gave the keynote address at the 9th annual Association for Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Regional Forum Inter-Sessional Meeting on Disaster Relief (ARF ISM-DR) in Honolulu, 16–18 September.

Emergency management

& The German Armed Forces (Bundeswehr), the German Federal Police and the 16 state police forces (Länderpolizei) all have been deployed for disaster relief operations.

James F. Colaianni

They are the parents of Karen (Colaianni) Johnson, founder/director, KJPRPublicity.com, Janice Sosebee, former radio newscaster/ now federal disaster relief worker, Pamela Colaianni (deceased), James F. Colaianni, Jr., publisher/author, Louis Colaianni, author/voice coach, and John Colianni, jazz pianist.

JTLS

Joint Theater Level Simulation, a civil/military and humanitarian assistance/disaster relief (HA/DR) simulation

Pamela Liversidge

She has been Vice-President of RedR an organization of engineers for disaster relief.

Phoenix Islands

Bond reportedly works for UK-based disaster relief charity ShelterBox, which provides emergency aid to people in need.

Sa Dingding

Dingding composed a song with Eric Mouquet of Deep Forest called "Won't Be Long" to raise funds for disaster relief after the 2008 Sichuan earthquake.

Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act

One proposed amendment to the Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistant Act is the Federal Disaster Assistance Nonprofit Fairness Act of 2013 (H.R. 592), a bill that passed in the United States House of Representatives on February 13, 2013, during the 113th United States Congress.

VMGR-152

After the Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami hit Japan on 11 March 2011, the squadron sent eight of its KC-130Js to Iwakuni for disaster relief and support for the Japanese Government and people in what became “Operation Tomodachi”.