Geekie Stuff—JLOTS to the Rescue

Or at least I hope so.

Here is one blogger, Eagle 1, who is hopeful that we can overcome the destruction of the port in Port au Prince with JLOTS&mdahs;Joint Logistics Over The Shore.

Great pictures and all.  As the Blog Post says, "No other country in the world can bring this sort of 'ready now' equipment to a disaster area."

It isn't just collecting money, but having the equipment and having it readily available.  Someone, in an EMail, commented that a plane is leaving Pope AFB about every 30 minutes, with a platoon of soldiers (think 50 passengers) and tons of pallets (mortuary supplies and medicine) and trucks.  As someone noted, the wholesale side of this is not the hard part, it is the retail, getting the water and the food and the medicine out to the people scattered across Haiti.  The medicine is, I suspect about more than treating injuries.  If you are lucky enough to be on blood thinners, you don't want to stop taking that prescription.

Airlift is great for getting stuff there early, but 90 to 95 percent of everything Haiti needs will have to come by ship, first because the airport is very small and second because going by ship is just 20 ties more effective in terms of cube and weight (size and weight if you like).

Regards  —  Cliff