US troops depart for mission to build Gaza aid port
Four US Army vessels depart a base in Virginia carrying about 100 soldiers and equipment they will need to build a temporary port on Gaza's coast for urgently needed aid deliveries. The new facility -- which will consist of an offshore platform for transshipment of aid from larger to smaller vessels and a pier to bring it ashore -- will be up and running in 60 days, US Army Brigadier General Brad Hinson tells journalists. “Once we get fully mission-capable, we will be able to push up to two million meals, or two million bottles of water, ashore each day,” Hinson says during a press conference at Joint Base Langley-Eustis.
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00:27 So once we get fully mission capable, we will be able to push up to 2 million
00:33 meals or 2 million bottles of water ashore each day.
00:39 So if you look at the current capability that we have with the aerial delivery
00:44 right now, we increase that exponentially with what we can do
00:49 day in and day out with joint logistics over the shore capability.
00:52 We will have soldiers that work on the pier.
00:55 We will have soldiers that construct the pier, but
00:59 there will be no soldiers on the ground for the construction.
01:03 That is 100% true statement.
01:08 And we can construct this pier without having US soldiers to step foot
01:13 on the beach or on the ground.
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