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Earthquake ^ Tsunami - Pago Pago, American Samoa, October 5, 2009 -- A member of a Disaster Medical Assistance Team (DMAT) rushes supplies onto an awaiting Coast Guard plane that will evacuate an infant to Hawaii. DMATs are part of the U. S. Department of Health and Human Services' National Disaster Medical System which supports hospitals and other medical and public health needs of communities during disasters such as the earthquake and tsunami disaster in American Samoa. FEMA/Casey Deshong

Aus meiner Wanderzeit : Reiseeindrücke eines jungen Kaufmanns in Süd-Afrika, Indien, Ceylon, Singapore, Java, China, Japan, Australien, Neuseeland, Samoa, Hawaii, den Vereinigten Staaten und Canada : 100 000 Kilometer zu Wasser und zu Lande

Sidney short line : Hawaii - Samoa - Australia

Islands of the southern seas : Hawaii, Samoa, New Zealand, Tasmania, Australia, and Java

Derivatives of the US Navy (USN) P-3 Orion Aircraft representing the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) CP-140 Aurora (left), 407th Maritime Patrol Squadron, British Columbia, and Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) P-3C/AP-3C Orion, 92nd Wing, RAAF Maritime Patrol Group (MPG), RAAF Edinburgh, South Australia, sit on the flightline at Andersen Air Force Base (AFB), Guam. At the end of the line, a USN P-3 Orion aircraft, Patrol Squadron 9 (VP-9), Marine Corps Base Hawaii (MCBH), Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii. The aircraft are on station to participate in the joint exercise TANDEM THRUST 03, a joint US, Canada, and Australia exercise conducted in the Marianas islands to include Guam and Tinian

Marines from 3rd Battalion, 7th Marine Division India Company, practice and perfect a Tactical Recovery of Aircraft and Personal (TRAP) during Exercise KOA THUNDER 2001. KOA THUNDER is an exercise involving elements of 1ST Marine Air Wing (MAW), and 3rd Marine Division, where Marines conduct an Operational Readiness Exercise (ORE). The Aviation Support Element (ASE) from Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii, will be tested on command and control of several different missions, to include a TRAP, airfield seizures, and a Noncombatant Evacuation Operation (NEO)