On Sun, 17 Jan 2010 08:54:54 -0500, H :) K wrote:

Tim wrote:
" None is to blame"

Nothing new, here.


http://www.sphere.com/world/article/...s-patients-to-
fill-empty-beds-in-haiti/19319629

"One reason beds are empty is that the ship doesn't have the authority
to pick up victims; it has to wait for the Air Force to call and
request a medevac."



It's "the military." What do you expect, creative abstract thinking?

Well, there has been some. Remember the USS Bataan in Katrina? The
Captain rode out the storm, followed it in, and was among the first to
start rescue operations, all on his own initiative, IIRC. Then when the
"rescue operation" started, the Bataan became an underused asset.