Lt. Gen Henry Stackpole
Army/ Air Force
International Effort
US Navy/ Marines
C-130
Ground Support
LCAC
15 Total
Black Hawk
Disaster Asstance Responce Team
US Army Corps of Engineers
8 Supplies
Okinawa
Location
Chittagong
Stackpole Objectives
Summary of Mission
State Department Objectives
- Preserve Government
- Restore Confidence
- 250,000 Gallons of Water
- 40,000 Tons of Supplies
- 15,000 Patients
- 2000 Air Missions
- Bangladesh Forces
- Small Contingent
- Ship to Shore
- Multi National Effort (Japan, UK, China)
- State Department
Success
Failures
- Tadpole
- Command- upper level
- Geography and Terrain
- Movement on land
- Intelligence
- Command and Control
- Ship to Shore Supplies
- Communication
- Mass
- Distribution
- Sea Basing
Questions?
3 Phase Plan
Relief Operations in Bangladesh
Sit Rep
- Category 5 Cyclone- Marian
- 30 April 1991
- Bay of Bengal
- 140,000 Killed
- 10 Million displaced
- New Government
US Response
- Military vs. State
- Price
- Joint Chiefs- Colin Powell
- 10 May
- Operation Desert Storm
- Phase I
- Arrival/ initial relief
- Phase II
- Transition
- Phase III
- Turn over
5th Marines Expeditionary Brigade
3rd Marine Amphibious Group
Sea and Land Forces
- Land- Colonol Fergeson -> Bangladesh
- Sea-8 Amphibious Ships 1 AF 3 USMC 1 USN- Lt. Gen. Stackpole