Reporters on the Job
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Remember the SPF 30 : Staff writer Scott Baldauf spent five days on patrol in Afghanistan with members of the US 82nd Airborne Division (
See story). When he reached the US military base at Qalat early in the morning, about 100 US soldiers and their gear were already on the flight line waiting for a deployment.
"The commander of US forces in the sector, Lt. Col. Mark Stammer, came up to me and gave me a handshake and asked, 'You ready to go?'
Scott had hopped two military flights to get there. "I hadn't had a shower in two days by this time, and hadn't had sleep in almost that much time," says Scott. "But I wasn't going to let that stop me. I said, 'yes.'"
Five minutes of repacking a small daypack, gathering up a few bottles of water and MREs, and Scott was aboard a Chinook helicopter and heading up north, out to the "battlespace."
But Scott returned from the mission with a souvenir he hadn't expected. "I packed so light that I neglected to bring a shirt with long sleeves. By the end of the five days, I was as red as a lobster."
David Clark Scott
World editor
South Asia quake relief
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How to Help: A list of some of the organizations providing aid for quake victims.
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
www.ifrc.org
PO Box 372
CH-1211
Geneva 19
Switzerland
Phone: +41 22 730 42 22
World Food Programme
www.wfp.org
1819 L Street NW
Suite 400
Washington, D.C. 20036
202-530-1694
UNICEF
333 East 38th Street
(Mail Code: GC-6)
New York, NY 10016
212-686-5522
Mercy Corps
www.mercycorps.org
Dept W, PO Box 2669
Portland OR 97208
(888) 256-1900
The First Church of Christ, Scientist
www.churchofchristscientist.org
Pakistan Earthquake Relief
Humanitarian/Spiritually focused Aid
175 Huntington Ave., A-9
Boston, MA 02115
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