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Medical personnel load earthquake victims into a U.S. Air Force C-130 Hercules aircraft at Toussaint L’Ouverture International Airport in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Jan. 25, 2010. Department of Defense assets have been deployed to the island to assist with the Haitian relief effort.

Medical personnel load earthquake victims into a U.S. Air Force C-130 Hercules aircraft.

Medical personnel load earthquake victims into a U.S. Air Force C-130 Hercules aircraft at Toussaint L’Ouverture International Airport in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Jan. 25, 2010. Department of Defense assets have been deployed to the island to assist with the Haitian relief effort.

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