Story by Capt. Jordan Cochran and Staff Sgt. Robert Durham | 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit | 10.09.2016
Approximately 300 Marines from the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit arrived on the coast of the Republic of Haiti from USS Mesa Verde to aid the country after the Category IV storm, Hurricane Matthew, tore through the region causing severe flooding and displacing citizens here already struggling from a massive 7.6 earthquake in 2010 and recent epidemics of water and mosquito-borne illnesses....