Ok here is one that I will predict right now on Haiti Operations

[nadinbrzezinski]

Well every team that is coming in is bringing in Logistics Experts.

Here is where all this "repeat expertise" will probably go. The city will essentially be sectored out. That way my procedures don't clash with yours, and there are differences.

So each Logistics team will essentially be responsible and report up, for their sector.

This is fairly standard and if you think of this as oh military like... yes. it is modeled on military operations, because they are damn efficient.

By the way I bother to interpret news so people can see how these things are done. The only burp in this is that you might see some unequal distribution of resources, partly because logistics philosophy does change in minor ways from institution to institution.

[Bobbieo]

1. Sounds like a winner!!!!

[Warpy]

2. Aerial views of tent cities in parks

showed fewer sheets and more blue tarps today. Things are getting in, the process is just maddeningly slow.

[nadinbrzezinski]

3. I know, but the other problem are silly things like lack of heavy lift

and unloading cargo equipment. I was looking at the three Hercules Mexico Sent oh last night. One of them had the gear. So some coordination even in that respect is happening. but you have to ask yourself as a logistics officer... ten more tons of cargo or one single piece of gear that will make the unloading a little easier at the airport? (I am betting that staid behind) But then again, most unloading is being done by hand... so I am sure that thing was welcomed.

(And that is part of some of the coordination we are starting to see. I would not be too shocked if more of these pieces of equipment arrive from both the US and Canada this way... )

[Warpy]

4. They also need a way to refuel everything.

There is absolutely no infrastructure, nothing. I read today that it took over 6 hours to unload a Chinese relief plane by hand.

That's what they're up against. Right now, with no power, no fuel, no heavy equipment, they're doing everything by human power and that means it will remain too slow to help everyone.

[nadinbrzezinski]

5. They will have to bring a couple tankers sonner or later

or reverse fuel the airport, using air tankers.

And as I said, C-130s bringing in the unloading equipment...

This is the absolute worst case scenario for any disaster planner.

Oh and to top it off... security, which is always a concern in the City, is becoming a serious issue. Not that this shocks me or surprise me.

[northzax]

6. fuel is coming by air

it's part of the US aid response (securing and reestablishing the airport is another) from what I've heard, the port facilities are in no shape to handle tankers, so the US Navy and Army Corps of Engineers are working on that right now as well.

how does the developed world bring supplies into what is in essence no longer a part of the industrial age? that's your problem, right there. it's also a reason for the USS Vinson, having a carrier nearby seriously helps with logistics.