Flashback...Retired U.S. Army Medical Service Corps Major comes out of Retirement To Help Tsunami Victims

We often report stories of our U.S. military and the work they do here at home and while deployed to places such as Iraq, Afghanistan and even the areas ravaged by the recent tsunami....
In January,Bob Holdorf, the retired Army Medical Service Corps major put on his medical cap again for a trip aboard the U.S. Navy Hospital Ship Mercy to serve as the onboard hospital administrator.Although work is familiar, what he saw in Indonesia was not. The USNS Mercy was sent to help with Operation Unified Assistance. It was off the coast of Indonesia from February through mid-March, just a few miles from the epicenter of the earthquake that had caused the tsunami.In an e-mail, Holdorf described what he saw:
"The USNS Mercy arrived in Indonesia six weeks after the tidal wave swamped the city of Banda Aceh. We arrived just as the USS Abraham Lincoln was finishing its work of sending in water and food across Aceh province..."Click title for the rest.