RFA Mounts Bay delivers vital aid to Caribbean islands

Royal Air Force Benson engineers from the Puma Force have been working through the night to prepare aircraft for the Vanguard Aviation Force.

Three flights will shortly be departing RAF Brize Norton carrying Royal Marines, Engineers, medical supplies and aid including emergency shelter kits, rations and clean water. Tomorrow a further C17 will leave from Brize Norton carrying two Puma helicopters.

The Force, which remains on constant standby to deploy worldwide, has been called upon to support the relief efforts in the British Overseas Territories in the Caribbean hit by Hurricane Irma. Highly experienced at providing support in humanitarian aid missions, two Puma aircraft left RAF Benson in the early hours of Friday 8 September 2017 to transit to RAF Brize Norton. Here they will be prepared by engineers for transport, loaded into a C-17, and flown to the Caribbean. Within 4 hours of being unloaded, the aircraft can be undertaking tasks in support of the humanitarian mission.

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