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Originally Posted by TheDoc
The Coast Guard and Nato were already in Haiti and responded instantly...
They also had tsunami warnings, you can't drive ships into possible tsunami's or unknown aftershocks that could be even bigger. With that, 12 hour response time, with night fall, and getting ships loaded, is impossible... being a Marine, I know that.
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The tsunami warning only lasted for a little bit, not long at all.
It would not take long to mobilize from Guantanamo to get soldiers on the ground to assist with the search and rescue, along with doctors and some medicine.
The Coast Guard and NATO didn't do a whole lot.