Gates orders additional ship, eyes more capability for Haiti: "Just hours before another earthquake hit Haiti early this morning, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said the Defense Department is sending a port-clearing ship and evaluating additional capabilities to assist the disaster relief effort.
Secretary Gates announced that he signed deployment orders this morning to send a port-clearing ship equipped with cranes to get the port operating within a week or two to speed up aid distribution.
'We are looking at a variety of other capabilities,' he said. 'We are trying to look at alternative routes there might be to get bulk food and bulk supplies in there.'"
