Miami native returns to Haiti for relief effort [Image 148 of 265]

AT SEA

10.14.2016

Photo by Sgt. Matthew Callahan              

U.S. Navy           

“Today I got to see where I came from.”

“I joined the Marine Corps to get away from home,” said Cpl. Dominick Pierre, a motor transport operator with the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit and Miami, Florida, native. “I had a part-time job and was going to school but I felt like I was going to stay there and not do anything with my life, really,” he said. “I didn’t want to be comfortable.”

Joining the Corps brought Pierre back to Haiti, where he was born in 1994. He’s been assisting in delivery of food and supplies to government and non-government organizations and Haitians on the ground after Hurricane Matthew, a category 4 storm, slammed Haiti earlier in October.
“I just feel like any chance I have to help out the place where I came from, I’m there,” he said.

Pierre is one of hundreds of Marines and sailors with the 24th MEU assisting in humanitarian aid/disaster relief operations under Joint Task Force Matthew. JTF Matthew has delivered over 253 metric tons of food, water and supplies and has flown 277 hours in support of aid efforts across Haiti

(U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Matthew Callahan)

• Date Taken: 10.14.2016
• Date Posted: 10.20.2016 00:35
• Photo ID: 2932675
• VIRIN: 161014-M-IN448-059
• Resolution: 3000x2000
• Size: 4.26 MB
• Location: AT SEA