Reply #51: US Contingency Response Wing sent to Dominican airport to prepare as secondary location for

[Garbo 2004]

incoming aid since Haiti airport overwhelmed with traffic.

Nearly 50 members of a Travis Air Force Base unit were headed for the Caribbean Sunday to aid in ongoing humanitarian efforts in the wake of last week's devastating Haiti earthquake, Air Force officials said.

The 615th Contingency Response Wing stationed at Travis left early Sunday for San Isidro to help prepare the Dominican Republic location as a secondary position for humanitarian relief supplies in the region, Travis Air Force Capt. Paradon Silpasornprasit said.

With the heavily damaged Port Au Prince International Airport in Haiti overwhelmed since the 7.0-magnitude quake, the 615th -- one of two contingency response wings in the Air Force -- will bolster airfield operations in San Isidro for the expected increase of air traffic in the coming days. http://www.news10.net/news/story.aspx?storyid=73470&catid=2

The wing was sent to a second location due to the overwhelming traffic at Port-au-Prince International Airport.

The 615th will assist airfield operations at San Isidro. The team consists of aerial port operators, air traffic control, air transportation and maintenance personnel. http://www.kcra.com/news/22260177/detail.html