Greetings from Haiti!

This is my first post and I am very excited - so excited, I don't know what to write!

I have been in Haiti for about six weeks, providing public affairs support  for the Joint Task Force - Haiti command team. It has been very interesting for me (this is my first deployment) and I am in no rush to leave.

My job responsibilities here are to gather command information products and distribute them via electronic means.  I am also assisting in the publication of the JTF-H twice-weekly newsletter, The Responder, and provide photographic support.

My unit, the XVIII Airborne Corps, based out of Fort Bragg, N.C., was a first responder to the Jan. 12, 2010, earthquake that rocked the nation of Haiti. The Corps, as the command and control element, doesn't have a large public affairs team, so we had to tag two members of the Fort Bliss, Texas-based 16th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment.

Our team currently includes a joint forces team of public affairs officers, a public affairs sergeant major, a broadcast journalist noncommissioned officer and two print journalists.  We are in the process of changing PA support over the U.S. Army South and the 11th Public Affairs Detachment.

I wish I would have started this earlier so that I would have been able to share the last month or so of my Haiti experiences.

Some of the products that we have put out can be accessed here,the 18ABC facebook here, and the JTF-H facebook here.