U.S. Navy sailors with Helicopter Maritime Strike Squadron - 51 from the guided missile destroyer U.S.S. Lassen (DDG-82), conduct humanitarian assistance operations, offloading aid supplies from an MH-60R Seahawk helicopter to a remote village in the Republic of the Philippines,18 November 2013. The Department of Defense maintains significant capability forward deployed throughout the Asia-Pacific region ready to provide humanitarian assistance and disaster relief. Forward deployed forces are fully capable to rapidly deploy to such disasters like Typhoon Haiyan/Yolanda. (U.S. Marine Corps Motion Imagery by Sgt. John C. Lamb) Also available in high definition
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