These include the USS Bataan to conduct search and rescue missions, eight swift water rescue teams, the Iwo Jima Amphibious Readiness Group to help with disaster response equipment, and Hospital Ship USNS Comfort to help provide medical care.

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Each department accepts donations to support their response efforts and pay for supplies and equipment.

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It specializes in aerospace equipment and is hiring in response to a healthy increase in sales in the second quarter.

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There is also no word on a massive push for local police forces who toil with low wages and antiquated equipment - the so-called quick response team of the Maharashtra police, for example, has not fired a single shot in the past year because of the lack of ammunition.

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Bob Maitland, of Melksham, who runs Immediate Response Training Services, has promised to help the team with its new equipment free of charge.

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The Navy disputes his assessment, saying this year's humpback whale season was normal, and more whales than ever before were seen in March 1998, when biologists studied humpbacks' response to the Navy's Low-Frequency Active Sonar (LFAS) equipment in Hawaiian waters.

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The company has the "best equipment" to stop the spill, but he hasn't seen enough of a rapid response from BP, he said in an interview with to be broadcast Thursday night.

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