Joint Task Force Caring Response was a

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multi-service

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and disaster relief effort for Burmese citizens devastated by recent

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in 2008.

History

JTF Caring Response was led by Lieutenant General John F. Goodman of the U.S. Marine Corps. During a delivery by MAG-36 supported by

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on 19 May 2008 to

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in Burma approximately 15,000 pounds of water, water containers, rations, and mosquito netting were unloaded from a C-130 Hercules aircraft in direct support of VMGR-152.

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7/TF 76/

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was also standing by off the Myanmar coast in order to be ready to deliver aid should it be allowed to do so.

References

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