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 [...]
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 [...]
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.
Good Morning, GTMO
US Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay, CUBA: The sun rises over a 747 cargo plane while a UH-53 Sea Hawk is prepped for airlifts to Haiti. View the full gallery here.
