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You got to do a Hatian field trip. That's pretty cool. Our ships, the MPS vessels I worked on carried out humanitarian aid. Seems I got out of the program when the "Real" aid started to happen. What I mean by that was like the Somalian "RESTORE HOPE" and the Typhoon victims in the Indian Ocean areas , and quake victims of Philippines. Though I got a good one at Desert Storm, and got exercises in Korea and Honduras, none really involved "HUMANITARIAN AID". It was war and war training exercises. I always hear that Haiti was an interesting beautiful country. Poor as hell but otherwise, pretty. I had some interest of going up to the CAP HATIAN area north of Haiti, and read alot about TORTUGA ISLAND that was a pirates sanctuary during the Spanish Main days. I also like to read about the Marine Corps history involvement in Haiti as their "Banana Wars" days in the early 1900's. We don't fly there and it would seem to take quite some effort to go there but that is not one of my top priorities for now. But like yourself going on a field trip, that would have been an interesting experience. Good for you ColoAvs19. You made it to a place I never been. If they give you a certificate of participation in humanitarian aid for Haiti, get it framed. They gave those out for guys taking troops to Kuwait during the war with Iraq. I got a certificate with the MPS program signed by a USMC Colonel during Desert Storm. It listed my name along with all the countries in the coalition. I have it some 20 years later framed up.