U.S. 海洋s begin 操作／手術s in 地震-struck Nepal
By Frank Jack Daniel and Andrew R.C. Marshall
KATHMANDU, May 2 (Reuters) - U.S. 軍の 航空機, 激しい 器具／備品 and 空気／公表する traffic 監査役s will start arriving in Nepal from Saturday as part of a U.S. 救済 操作／手術 に引き続いて the 破滅的な 地震, a 上級の U.S. officer said.
The 7.8 magnitude 地震 that struck last Saturday killed at least 6,250 people and left hundreds of thousands homeless when it destroyed parts of the 資本／首都 Kathmandu and flattened villages across a wide 列 of the country.
准將 General Paul Kennedy of the U.S. 海洋 軍団 told Reuters the six 軍の 航空機, 含むing two ヘリコプターs, will arrive from Saturday, …を伴ってd by 100 海洋s and 解除するing 器具／備品 under an 協定 reached with Nepal's 政府 earlier in the week.
The U.S. 軍の would help manage the growing piles of 救済 供給（する）s clogging Nepal's only international airport, 位置を示すd in Kathmandu, which has struggled to 分配する all the 援助（する） arriving from around the world since the 地震.
"What you don't want to do is build up a mountain of 供給（する）s," 封鎖するing space for 計画（する）s or more 供給（する）s, Kennedy said.
The 国際連合 has said 8 million of Nepal's 28 million people were 影響する／感情d by the 地震, with at least 2 million needing テントs, water, food and 薬／医学s over the next three months.
Kennedy's own flight on a C-130 貨物 計画（する） was の近くに to "a 燃料 緊急" because it had to spend so me time circling over Kathmandu after a long flight from his base in Okinawa, Japan, on Wednesday, he said.
The general said the 計画（する） was part of a long practiced 地震 返答 in the most 居住させるd area of Nepal.
"Nepal serves as the worst-事例／患者 シナリオ for 軍の planners," Kennedy said on Friday, speaking at the American Club in Kathmandu, in a 変えるd dance fitness studio now decorated with 地図／計画するs and 占領するd by a team of 海洋s working on laptops.
"It is land-locked and there are only a small number of useable 離着陸場s that will 扱う 軍の-sized 航空機," Kennedy said.
専門家s have long 予報するd that a powerful 地震 in Kathmandu would kill up to 100,000 people, and 負傷させる の近くに to a million, 要求するing a formidable international 返答. In the event, the （死傷者）数 was much lower.
Kennedy did not say how 広範囲にわたる the U.S. presence in Nepal would grow after the 初期の arrival of four vertical take-off Osprey 航空機, two Bell Hueys and 器具／備品 such as forklift トラックで運ぶs to help move 救済 供給（する）s at the airport.
Teams of 兵士s carrying portable レーダs and 含むing airstrip 修理 専門家s, will be sent to enable two 地方の airports to receive 激しい 輸送（する） flights day and night.
The airports 存在 considered to relieve the 圧力 on the international airport 含む one at trekking 目的地 Pokhara and another 近づく the birthplace of Buddha.
"Those are the ones 有能な of (扱うing) larger 航空機," he said.
He said the 部隊d 明言する／公表するs would not be 伴う／関わるd in 空気／公表する-traffic 操作／手術s at Kathmandu airport, which would raise questions of 主権，独立.
"When you 支配（する）／統制する the international gateway to any country, the last thing you really want to cede is the 空気／公表する tower, because they 支配（する）／統制する who is coming and who is bringing what," he said. (Editing by Raju Gopalakrishnan)
