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            <div class="image-caption">An HH-60L Black Hawk helicopter prepares to launch from Soto Cano Air Base, Honduras, Oct. 4, 2016, to stage at the Grand Cayman Islands to support Hurricane Matthew relief efforts if requested by the U.S. Agency for International Development’s Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance. The Black Hawk is assigned to Joint Task Force-Bravo’s 1st Battalion, 228th Aviation Regiment. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Siuta B. Ika</div>
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    <div><b>By Terri Moon Cronk</b> <span class="date">/ Published Oct. 6, 2016</span></div>
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</span>U.S. military assistance is on the ground in Haiti to assist and support the tiny island nation with the impact felt from Hurricane Matthew this week, Pentagon Press Secretary Peter Cook told reporters today.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: black;">Cook said as the team is stood up, the United States and Defense Department will coordinate needs for U.S. military assistance with interagency partners and the Haitian government, he added.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333436;">Defense Secretary Ash Carter is getting regular updates, Cook said. “He and the </span><span style="color: #1a1a1a;">rest of DoD are tracking the hurricane ...  as it threatens the U.S. East Coast,” he added, noting that the </span><a href="https://www.usaid.gov/"><span>U.S. Agency for international Development</span></a><span style="color: #1a1a1a;"> sent a request for assistance, and the secretary has given approval to </span><a href="http://www.southcom.mil/"><span>U.S. Southern Command</span></a><span style="color: #1a1a1a;"> to spend up to $11 million in overseas humanitarian, disaster and civic aid funds for disaster relief.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #1a1a1a;">The funding includes transportation in the Caribbean, airfield support assessment and airfield operation support, he said. </span></p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #1a1a1a;">Northcom Coordinating With Agencies</span></strong></p>
<p><span style="color: #1a1a1a;">“</span><a href="http://www.northcom.mil/"><span>U.S. Northern Command</span></a><span style="color: #1a1a1a;"> is coordinating with the </span><a href="https://www.fema.gov/"><span>Federal Emergency Management Agency</span></a><span style="color: #1a1a1a;">, the military services, the </span><a href="http://www.state.gov/"><span>State Department</span></a><span style="color: #1a1a1a;"> and East Coast states for DoD response efforts. </span></p>
<p><span style="color: #1a1a1a;">Northcom has identified four facilities as FEMA installation support bases to use as staging areas for trucks, trailers and other equipment and personnel at North Auxiliary Field, which is north of Charleston, South Carolina; Albany Marine Corps Logistics Base In Georgia; Fort Bragg, North Carolina; and Fort A.P. Hill, Virginia, the press secretary said. Some 4,500 Guardsmen have been mobilized by their respective state governors in preparation for Hurricane Matthew, he added.</span></p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #1a1a1a;">U.S. Strike Kills al-Qaida Senior Leader </span></strong></p>
<p><span>In other news, Cook confirmed the death of Egyptian national Abu al Faraj al Masri, also known as Amad Salama Mabrouk, one of al-Qaida's most senior leaders, in an Oct. 3 </span><a href="http://www.defense.gov/News/Article/Article/963080/us-strike-in-syria-targets-key-al-qaida-leader"><span>American airstrike</span></a><span> near Idlib, Syria. </span></p>
<p>“His death is a significant disruption to al-Qaida's senior leadership, and again a blow to their ability to plot external attacks,” the press secretary said.</p>
<p><strong><span>Soldier Killed In Afghanistan</span></strong></p>
<p><span>DoD today also released the name of Army Staff Sgt. Adam S. Thomas, </span><span style="color: black;">31, of Takoma Park, Maryland, who was killed Oct. 4</span><span> in Afghanistan’s Nangarhar province,</span><span style="color: black;"> where he was supporting Operation Freedom’s Sentinel</span><span>. </span><span style="color: black;">The incident is under investigation, a </span><a href="http://www.defense.gov/News/News-Releases/News-Release-View/Article/965570/dod-identifies-army-casualty"><span>Pentagon release</span></a><span style="color: black;"> noted</span><span>. Thomas was the first American service member killed in a counter-Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant operation in Afghanistan, Cook said.</span></p>
<p><span>Carter and the entire Defense Department offer their condolences to Thomas' family, Cook told reporters. “And even as we mourn the loss of Staff Sergeant Thomas,” he added “the United States will continue to lead the campaign to deliver ISIL the lasting defeat it deserves and to combat ISIL's metastases everywhere they emerge around the world, including in Afghanistan.”</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 10pt;"><span>(Follow Terri Moon Cronk on Twitter: @MoonCronkDoD)</span></p><br />
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