HADR Philippines, Super Typhoon Haiyan/Yolanda

U.S. Marines with 3rd Marine Expeditionary Brigade conduct humanitarian assistance operations, evacuating displaced personnel on a C-130 aircraft and evacuating displaced personnel on Villamor Air Base, Republic of the Philippines, 12 November, 2013. U.S. Marine Corps Forces, Pacific maintains significant capability forward deployed throughout the Asia-Pacific region ready to provide humanitarian assistance and disaster relief. Without forward deployed forces, rapidly and fully capable deployments to such disasters like Typhoon Haiyan/Yolonda would not be possible. (U.S. Marine Corps Motion Imagery by Sgt. John C. Lamb).