Drone shows extent of Italy quake destruction - BBC News

Worst I've been thru is a 5.6 that was good enough don't want to repeat.

The ugly part is the recovery team efforts and that is what my brothers will be doing soon and this will be like the Pakistan Earth quake that I had been a part of in 2005 after we had deployed in Aug to Katrina. The thing is that is a Seabees main mission Disaster Recovery and any time the US responds we are there on the ground. We even sent a CBR team to Japan after the Earth quake there to take readings and set up DECON points.

CPO (Join to see) - We have the skills and talent. It is what the Navy does and I would hope so with 6th flt being right there.

PO1 William "Chip" Nagel - Ya it looks like it will be Marine Corps lead with NECC setting up C2 control center. I don't know if how much big Navy will be involved as DRT missions fall under NECC and work with MAGTAF special purpose- Crisis Response out of Africa will be the Main lead and Airforce Air traffic control team as the Air field only has one runway. This is the same type recovery that we did in Haiti, in 2010, and the ground efforts will be like what my team did in Mountains of Pakistan 2005-06.We as in Seabees fall under the MAGTF-CR chain of command and have a Battalion on ready in Spain. Looks like 500 hundred ground troops.

I was a DRT/CBR Chief for 6 years that was my main job planing and executing Disaster Recovery missions when our Battalion got tasked with that mission. Working and living on the ground doing those operations suck but that is what Bees train to do. You get mixed feelings because you are helping people at their worse time in their life and recovering bodies and damage repair and in some ways your happy because you trained for those missions.