Child Labor
Petion-Ville, HAITI — A child at a 5000-person refugee camp west of Port-au-Prince carries a cinderblock on his head. Shot while on a mission with a group from the 82nd Airborne Div. This camp had previously not been found by relief organizations. With tin roofs, salvaged sections of concrete walls serving as building materials, intelligence [...]
Woman in Tent City, Haiti, January 2010
Woman in Tent City, Haiti, January 2010, originally uploaded by Benjamin Chertoff. HAITI, JANUARY 2010: A girl hides her face behind the tin wall of just one dwelling In a 5000-person camp we found in Petion-Ville that, at the time, had not yet been discovered. I took this while standing on the pick-up bed of [...]
Help
Help, originally uploaded by Benjamin Chertoff. A Humvee convoy carrying Rangers and medics from the 82nd Airborne passes under a sign pointing out a refugee camp and their plea for help. In the month following the January 12th earthquake, signs such as these are common sights. On an intel recon mission, the convoy continues in [...]
Ten Seconds to Chaos: 9:24:50 AM
Ten Seconds to Chaos: 9:24:50 AM, originally uploaded by Benjamin Chertoff. Part of my Popular Mechanics photo essay: http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/military_law/4346988.html
PUBLISHED: Ospreys Get their Humanitarian test in Haiti
My third story for Popular Mechanics — this one on the much maligned, but very, very cool, MV-22 Osprey at work in Haiti, is up at PopularMechanics.com. USS Bataan, HAITI — An MV-22 Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft launches from the flight deck of the Bataan during Operation Unified Response. The relief effort in Haiti is the [...]
PUBLISHED: Flagship in a Box
My next piece for Popular Mechanics is up! Read on to learn how the military is developing command and control units to replace to all-important flagship of yore. Lashed to the USS Bataan’s crowded hangar deck, a group of four sea containers provides complete command and control access for a commanding Naval officer. It also gives [...]
Medivac IM
Yay! The first story from Haiti is online at Popular Mechanics; click through to learn how the Navy coordinated with the Army to streamline medivac flights… by using a simple, internet chatroom. Somewhere, Steve Case is smiling. 60s on the beach.
More Images from Haiti
On my way home, loaded with images. At GTMO, waiting for a military flight to Anywhere, USA.
On board the US Navy aircraft carrier Carl Vinson; choppered over from the Bataan this morning. Comunications are severely limited here, although I'm trying to kludge together a satellite connection with my own dish at the top of the island. Everyone who is waiting for me to file – I will be, as soon as [...]
Too tired for captions today. Stormed the beaches of Haiti with about 200 pallets of MREs, unloaded into a Marine FOB (forward operating base) in a small village off the beach. Aftershocks rolled through this afternoon and evening. The first one hit a 4.7, and we FELT it on the Bataan. Every so often the [...]
Dateline: USS Bataan, of the shores of Haiti
After several false starts, we finally crammed into a fully-loaded H-53 Sea King; by fully loaded I mean my legs were pressed up against pallets of relief supplies. We landed on the deck of the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70) covered in hydraulic fluid. I slid down the exit ramp. Our time there was [...]
