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WASHINGTON — The U.S. military has airdropped water and food into Haiti after earlier ruling out such a delivery method as too risky.
Maj. Tanya Bradsher, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Southern Command, said an Air Force C-17 flying out of Pope Air Force Base, N.C., on Monday dropped 14,500 MREs, or Meals Ready to Eat, and 15,000 liters of water into a secured area 5 miles northeast of Port-au-Prince. Military officials are considering whether the method was successful enough to be used throughout Haiti.
