(6 Jan 2005) SHOTLIST
Aboard the USS Bonhomme Richard - 5 January 2005
1. USS Bonhomme Richard flight deck
2. Close up of a navy crew member then focus out on another crew member
3. Helicopter
4. Close up crew
5. Marines boarding helicopter
6. Helicopter crew signalling with his hand
7. Helicopter taking off
8. Navy crew member filling purified water into jugs
9. Close up of jugs
10. Navy crew watching and pan to the filling
11. US marines loading jugs of purified water into box
12. Navy crew carrying palette of supply
13. US marines carrying medical box
Medan airport, 4 January 2005
14. US helicopter in airport
15. Various helicopter on the tarmac
16. Various helicopter crew members
17. Helicopter lifting supplies
18. Inside the helicopter view of the supply in the air
19. Inside the helicopter crew member and US marines
20. Aerial shot
STORYLINE
The USS Bonhomme Richard, sailing with 13-hundred marines, on Thursday joined the USS Abraham Lincoln and its battle group in relief efforts off the north-west coast of Indonesia''s Sumatra island.
The Bonhomme - an amphibious assault ship - leads the Expeditionary Strike Group 5, which together with the Lincoln will focus its efforts on the island''s province of Aceh, which bore the full brunt of the tsunami disaster.
As many as 100-thousand people are believed to have been killed by the December 26 catastrophe in the area.
On Thursday, crew aboard the Bonhomme checked equipment loaded onto three huge hovercrafts stuffed into the hull of the vessel.
The large landing craft, which float on cushions of air, can come ashore on virtually any kind of beach.
Once ashore, the marines of the Bonhomme will offer the manpower and equipment needed to build shelters, clear roads and airstrips and distribute clean drinking water.
They are planning to set up farther south than their counterparts on the Lincoln to reach villages that may not yet have made contact with the outside world.
Though originally assigned to spearhead relief efforts on Sri Lanka, the Bonhomme was diverted to Sumatra after the government in Colombo scaled down its relief request.
On Wednesday, the vessel''s helicopters helped fly aid to the devastated coastal areas.
But the intensive airlift to bring supplies out of the overwhelmed airport in the north Sumatran city - which was untouched by the disaster - raised concerns from local officials that the military was crowding out commercial flights.
Two other ships, the USS Rushmore and the smaller USS Duluth, were also on the way to the area, to join what is possibly the largest US military humanitarian aid operation ever.
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