[frumpy]

Do you guys have a military international response team to respond to natural disasters and emergencies? I know there is USAID but I beleive thats a non-military organization that is primarly a way of controling all the NGOs

[got_4_lo]

technically we do, but I guess they can't function correctly....

[mopar3389]

the best we have is the national guard and the coast guard.....

[jbrem]

I think the National Guard does that stuff.

[red96jeep]

i'm sure their is one floating around in all the branches of the armed services somewhere.

[4XGore]

Do you guys have a military international response team to respond to natural disasters and emergencies?

No. Not one that is dedicated for that mission.

[4XGore]

Now someone is going to pull some obscure info and facts out and prove me wrong and I will feel like an idiot.

[War Eagle]

Originally Posted by 4xgore

No. Not one that is dedicated for that mission.

They do more, but emergencies and national disasters fall within their duties.

[AlTheKillerr]

or he has a group of people that are going to envade our country and kill us all

[schitzangiggles]

No we do not, we have civilian teams, but no military with that as a primary mision. It is the same reason that the Coast Guard is under the Dept of Transportation (boarding a foriegn flag vessel with a military force with out permision from ________ country is an act of war) and not the DoD. To many sticky issues and politics involved.

[frumpy]

Is there a team of people who its not their primary job but respond to disasters? (In other words who responds when countries ask the US for aid in a disaster situation)

[War Eagle]

Originally Posted by frumpy

Is there a team of people who its not their primary job but respond to disasters? (In other words who responds when countries ask the US for aid in a disaster situation)

I think that's called the military.

[BeachinXJ]

Originally Posted by frumpy

Is there a team of people who its not their primary job but respond to disasters? (In other words who responds when countries ask the US for aid in a disaster situation)

The military... yet, not many respond to help us.

[frumpy]

Originally Posted by War Eagle

I think that's called the military.

thanks captain obvious but many militaries have special teams or units that are specifically tasked with responding to natural disasters or emergencies (such as the Canadian militaries Disaster Assistance Response Team (DART), a group of 200 people from the air force, army, and navy including medics, doctors, engineers, and security personel. They go to disaster torn area usually deploy withing 72 hours and will stay for upto 40 days to provide initial aid. They provide medical aid but no surgery, engineers clean water rebuild roads and bridges, restore power and water suply systems as well as help hospitals and schools rebuild. They were formed in 96 after Rwanda and have conducted 4 major missions and are based out of Kingston and Trenton Ontario. Currently they are in the process of getting their own stratigic lift aircraft that will be available to them whenever they want and when not working for them will help suply Canada and the US in Afghanistan and Iraq.)

Wasnt looking for a smart *** answer, just wanted to know who responds for the americans to these type of situations

[WillysJeeper]

Originally Posted by frumpy

Do you guys have a military international response team to respond to natural disasters and emergencies? I know there is USAID but I beleive thats a non-military organization that is primarly a way of controling all the NGOs

By the way, Frumpy, you being from Canada...you make sure you address any American with a smile and solute. Canada is about a 1/2 a step in front of France in my book.