'Lay Your Ship'
By Commander Carl Meuser, U.S. Navy
The U.S. Navy’s 2010 earthquake-relief efforts in Haiti demonstrated a destroyer’s material capability in humanitarian crises—and the importance of preparing Sailors to cope with human suffering.
‘I know the humanitarian assistance–disaster relief capabilities of a DDG.” I have forgotten the name of the officer who e-mailed this sentence to me. Those words could have been written by any one of thousands of U.S. Navy officers. I bear him no ill will—but he was wrong.
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