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Military/Red Cross Partnership
 
America's Military and The American Red Cross Partnership
The American Red Cross has a long history of providing service to America's
military in times of war. Beginning in the mid-1800s the organization's
founder, Clara Barton, risked her life on the battlefields of the Civil War
to tend to fallen soldiers. Clara Barton later led a contingent of nurses to
Cuba during the Spanish-American War of 1898. Their heroic service prompted
a Congressional Charter requiring the American Red Cross to conduct
emergency communication services for armed forces personnel.
Spanish-American War. The Spanish-American War of 1898 was the first time
the American Red Cross provided services to American armed forces at war.
When the United States declared war on Spain, American Red Cross President
Clara Barton, at age 76, traveled to hospitals recruiting nurses to work for
the Army at medical camps in Florida and Cuba. Clara Barton, along with Red
Cross nurses, went to Cuba to provide nursing care, medical supplies, food
and other necessities to American service members. The American Red Cross
also provided a non-medical service for the armed forces--carrying on a
limited communications service which handled inquiries from families. These
American Red Cross efforts to relieve suffering did not go unnoticed. In
1900, the U.S. Congress granted the American Red Cross a charter, making the
volunteer organization responsible for providing communication services to
members of the U.S. Armed Forces.
World War I. On the brink of war with Germany in 1916, the Surgeon General
asked that the American Red Cross organize 50 base hospitals in France and
elsewhere. When the U.S. went to war in 1917, President Woodrow Wilson
appointed a War Council to run the Red Cross. As the war continued, American
Red Cross volunteer and paid workers provided medical and recreational
services for the military at home and abroad. They also pioneered the
development of psychiatric nursing programs at veterans' hospitals, made
artificial limbs and helped rehabilitate amputees and blinded veterans.
Eighteen thousand American Red Cross nurses provided much of the medical
care for the American military during World War I, and 4,800 Red Cross
ambulance drivers, including Walt Disney and Ernest Hemingway, provided
first aid on the front lines. The American Red Cross established 22
front-line canteens in Europe, serving drinks, food, and encouragement to
passing troops, to ambulance and truck drivers, and to wounded service
members who lay on stretchers outside operating rooms. In France alone, Red
Cross canteens served over 15 million mobile troops and 92,000 wounded.
During World War I, 296 American Red Cross nurses and 127 American Red Cross
ambulance drivers died in service to humanity.
World War II. When the U.S. entered World War II in 1941, America once again
turned to the Red Cross to support troops overseas and at home. The Red
Cross responded, and expanded its services. More than 104,000 registered
nurses recruited by the American Red Cross served in military hospitals at
home and overseas. The only organization authorized by the U.S. government
to provide canteens on military posts, the American Red Cross again offered
a comforting oasis for troops and support personnel. Red Cross volunteer and
paid workers also provided emergency message services, as required by the
American Red Cross' congressional charter. Twenty-seven million American Red
Cross packages were distributed to American and Allied prisoners of war,
providing life-sustaining supplemental rations. During World War II, the
American Red Cross provided social workers and recreation specialists to
ease the discomfort of newly-drafted civilians. Clubs and clubmobiles
operated in rest and recreation areas in the field and at military
hospitals, hospital ships and hospital trains. In the years leading up to
World War II, Dr. Charles Drew found a way to dry blood plasma, extending
its useful life from days to weeks and making it possible to ship massive
amounts of plasma to military in desperate need overseas. Organized at the
request of the Surgeon General, the American Red Cross blood donor project
added a new dimension to Red Cross services and collected 13.3 million units
of blood for American servicemen. Seventy-eight Red Cross workers died while
serving overseas during World War II.
Korean War. American Red Cross services grew during the Korean War.
President Harry Truman established the Federal blood program in 1951,
designating the Red Cross as the blood collecting agency for defense needs,
and more than five million pints of blood were collected for the armed
forces. At the request of General Douglas MacArthur, the Red Cross expanded
its emergency mobile recreation service, serving not only American troops,
but all United Nations forces. Eventually, there were 24 Red Cross canteen
and clubmobile units serving Korea, including those at airfields and at a
mobile surgical hospital. The American Red Cross provided emergency
communication from family members about illnesses, deaths and births
throughout the war, a free "first-call-home" program for those wounded in
action and millions of envelopes and sheets of paper so wounded service
members could write letters to home. A final end to hostilities in Korea
occurred in 1953 and representatives from the American Red Cross and the
Korean Red Cross ensured the smooth transfer of nearly 90,000 prisoners of
war during "Operation Big Switch." Two Red Cross workers gave their lives in
service to the American Red Cross during the Korean Conflict.
Vietnam. In 1962, the American Red Cross sent its first paid field staff to
Vietnam to assist the growing number of service members at various bases and
hospitals. At the height of its involvement in 1968, 480 American Red Cross
field directors, hospital personnel and recreation assistants served
throughout Southeast Asia. In response to a request by the military,
American Red Cross clubmobile workers brought recreation to an average of
280,500 service members a month. They logged over two million miles in
jeeps, trucks and helicopters during the program's seven-year history.
American Red Cross workers shared the hardships and privations of war with
the military. Five Red Cross staff members gave their lives. Many others
were injured as they helped service members resolve personal problems or get
home when emergency leave was granted due to death or serious illness in
their immediate family. When Vietnam veterans returned to the United States,
American Red Cross employees and volunteers concentrated on helping them
readjust to civilian life, often assisting them with paperwork connected
with their benefits.
Bay of Pigs Invasion. The American Red Cross and the Cuban Red Cross joined
efforts in 1963 to help the Cuban Families Committee arrange the release of
751 Cuban exiles and their families following the aborted Bay of Pigs
invasion. Following their release, American Red Cross volunteers distributed
comfort items to the former prisoners, staffed canteens, assisted with
transportation and temporary housing arrangements and rendered nursing
services. 
Persian Gulf War (Operation Desert Shield/Storm). Five days after the launch
of Operation Desert Shield in August 1990, the first American Red Cross
workers arrived in the Persian Gulf region. During the next year, 158
American Red Cross Armed Forces Emergency Services workers provided
humanitarian assistance and faced the danger of war with the men and women
of the U.S. Armed Forces. Red Cross staff carried 215,000 emergency messages
to and from the troops and provided comfort and support. Back home, American
Red Cross workers aided more than 4,700 service members and their families
with $1.72 million in emergency financial assistance and other services. In
fulfilling their duties in the Persian Gulf region, seven American Red Cross
workers received the Bronze Star for meritorious service.
Operation Restore Hope in Somalia. American Red Cross Armed Forces Emergency
Services workers were deployed to Somalia in January 1993. Living and
working in the same rustic conditions and dangerous environment as U.S.
troops, eight American Red Cross staff members relayed more than 3,000
emergency messages relating to the death, critical illness or birth of a
family member. 
Operation Uphold Democracy in Haiti. During the 1994 conflict, 17 American
Red Cross workers were ultimately deployed to live and work alongside U.S.
Armed Forces. More than 2,300 service members and their families received
emergency assistance. The American Red Cross provided greeting cards to
troops, which could be sent back home to families and friends. Other items
such as videos, playing cards and books were collected and distributed.
Operation Joint Endeavor/Joint Guard/Force. In 1995, 1996 and 1997, American
Red Cross workers provided humanitarian assistance to U.S. service members
deployed in Bosnia, Croatia and Hungary. In 1996, nine American Red Cross
workers began conducting emergency communication and other morale boosting
activities for U.S. troops; within a year more than 9,500 emergency messages
had been relayed. Red Cross workers also visited troops in hospitals,
sharing books, playing cards, videos and other comfort items received from
American Red Cross units around the world. At the end of 1996, the American
Red Cross collected and distributed more than 2,000 gift packages to service
members separated from their families during the holiday season.
Today Red Cross Armed Forces Emergency Services workers accompany
approximately 25,000 U.S. service members on overseas deployments in Kuwait,
Saudi Arabia, Kosovo, and Bosnia. When United States military personnel are
deployed, Red Cross workers are by their side providing emergency messages
and a caring presence to service men and women separated from their
families. 
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The American Red Cross has a long history of providing service to America's
Allora, per la par condicio..
Questo e' sempre IT.associazioni.cri.
O postate in italiano o vi limitate a mettere le URL, grazie!
DaC

Ciao Davide,
mi pare ovvio che "una americano" non conosca l'italiano e che voglia farci
sapere che negli USA l'ARC (American Red Cross) stia facendo qualcosa. Prova
ada andare Tu in alt.med.ems (che è il nostro n.g. corrispondente) e poi
guarda cosa succede; sicuramente si faranno in quattromila per rispondere in
ITALIANO.
Ciao DaC, sai che sono un rompixxxxx,
McEzio

mi pare ovvio che "una americano" non conosca l'italiano e che voglia farci
A parte che Gen.Custer l'italiano lo conosce, lo facevo solamente
per par condicio nei confronti di un'altro thread dove si
cazziava un post in francese.
La Netiquette e' uguale per tutti :-)
DaC

 DaC
Con questa risposta, sei stato degradato a cenere.

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Degradato?
Gen.Custer

 Degradato?
Nell'altro post lo avevo graduato con il titolo di "ufficiale carbone"
Ebbene si! quando il carbone č sottoposto ad erosione diventa cenere
;-)

 
Non ad erosione, bensì a combustione: non credo lasci residui.
Gen.Custer