"Right now we have a little over two-thousand troops on the ground, another nine-thousand in the area on the ships supporting us,"

VOA: standard.2010.01.20

In all,General Allyn says within the next few days there will be about 5,000 U.S.troops on the ground in Haiti, with another 5,000 on the ships supporting the effort.

VOA: standard.2010.01.19

There was a precedent supporting the Europeans: American green laws insist that ships docking locally be double hulled, even though that forces ship owners to pay for unwanted double hulls on international waters en route to American ports.

ECONOMIST: Planes and pollution

The Navy now has 13 maritime prepositioned ships (MPS) divided into three squadrons, each capable of supporting a brigade-sized Marine Corps air-ground task force for 30 days.

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