The United States of America help the Philippines relief effort not only through financial aid but through their personnel, the US has mobilized an array of military personnel and equipment to the country in the wake of killer Typhoon Haiyan, as confirmed by Pentagon on Sunday.
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US Marine Corps spokesman stated that an (–foul word(s) removed–)sment team is on the ground to gauge the support needed following the typhoon that have devastated the central provinces of the Visayas Region.
Some 90 marines and sailors from the 3rd Marine Expeditionary Brigade and two KC-130 Hercules aircraft from the 1st Marine Aircraft Wing left Japan Saturday for the crisis-strricken country, said Colonel John Peck.
Among the equipment that could prove to be particularly useful are MV-22 osprey tilt-rotor aircraft, they said. Aside from this equipment, two US Navy P-3 Orion aircraft based in Florida and currently on rotation to Misawa, Japan, Japan, have been prepositioned in the Philippines to (–foul word(s) removed–)ist with search and rescue operations.
Aside from the United States various international rescue and relief groups have already sent their help to the Philippines particularly in the worst affected areas of Leyte, Bantayan Island in Cebu, and Iloilo.
