The Washington Times is reporting:
ABOARD THE USS ABRAHAM LINCOLN — One of the largest U.S. military relief operations in history helped speed the pace of aid to desperate victims of Asia's tsunami disaster yesterday, delivering critical supplies to haggard survivors in severe need of food and water.
Flying in and out of flattened villages, American helicopters carried water, biscuits and other bare necessities to ravaged Indonesian communities, some of which had been impossible to reach since a Dec. 26 earthquake and tsunami ravaged coastlines in Asia and Africa.
The giant aircraft carrier and four other U.S. Navy vessels, crewed by more than 6,500 sailors and Marines, moved into position on Saturday off Indonesia to conduct one of the largest U.S. military operations in southern Asia since the Vietnam War.
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