DesiPundit

[via Pickled Politics] Mash shares “a story of a disaster that you have probably never heard of and the overwhelming American response that you should know about“.

In late spring of 1991 a US Navy Amphibious Task Force (ATF) returning from the Persian Gulf war was diverted, on order of President George H.W. Bush, to the Bay of Bengal. A Bangladeshi citizen, rumor has it, on seeing the ATF approach from the sea, called them “Angels from the Sea.” Thus began Operation Sea Angel, one of the largest military relief operations ever undertaken.

 Rumi remembers the American relief operations in Bangladesh in the aftermath of tropical storm Marian. [His post has comments from Americans soldiers who took part in the relief operations].