JTF-B deploys helos, personnel to Haiti

Senior Airman Kristopher Rainwater, 612th Logistics Readiness Squadron crew chief, salutes a C-17 Globemaster III as it departs Soto Cano Air Base, Honduras, with Joint Task Force-Bravo members deploying to Port au Prince, Haiti March 21. Team Soto Cano is sending 40 personnel and four UH-60s to support Joint Task Force-Haiti airlift operations as part of the disaster relief mission Operation Unified Response. (U.S. Air Force photo/1st Lt. Jen Richard)

JTF-B deploys helos, personnel to Haiti

Joint Task Force-Bravo members load a C-17 Globemaster III March 20 with the first of three UH-60 Blackhawks that were loaded in a single aircraft before deploying March 21 from Soto Cano Air Base, Honduras to Port au Prince, Haiti. Team Soto Cano sent more than 180,000 pounds of equipment and 40 personnel to support Joint Task Force-Haiti's disaster relief mission, Operation Unified Response. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Bryan Franks)

Haiti bound

A loadmaster guides the first of two fire trucks toward a 62nd Airlift Wing C-17 out of McChord Air Force Base, Wash. Feb. 3 at Soto Cano Air Base, Honduras. The Soto Cano fire trucks are bound for the Port-au-Prince International Airport in Haiti in support of Operation Unified Response. (U.S. Air Force Photo/Staff Sgt. Bryan Franks)

Haiti bound

Staff Sgt. Tameek Valentine, 612th Air Base Squadron, tightens down chains to secure one of two fire trucks Feb. 3 from Soto Cano Air Base, Honduras bound for Port-au-Prince International Airport in Haiti in support of Operation Unified Response. (U.S. Air Force Photo/Staff Sgt. Bryan Franks)

Relief effort

Members of the 612th Air Base Squadron ready one of three C-130s to carry 23 Joint Task Force-Bravo Medical Element personnel, along with 51,000 pounds of supplies, from Soto Cano AB, Honduras, to Haiti Jan. 17. The medical team deployed to join Joint Task Force-Haiti in Operation UNIFIED RESPONSE, the joint U.S. military disaster relief mission there. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Bryan Franks)

Relief effort

Members of the 612th Air Base Squadron ready one of three C-130s to carry 51,000 pounds of supplies from Joint Task Force-Bravo, Soto Cano AB, Honduras, to Haiti Jan. 17. A team of twenty-three Joint Task Force-Bravo’s Medical Element personnel departed on the C-130 to join Joint Task Force-Haiti in Operation UNIFIED RESPONSE, the joint U.S. military disaster relief mission there.(U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Bryan Franks)