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静かに立ち去った米軍 U.S. Airmen Quietly Reopen Wrecked Airport in Japan

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先週13日、わずか一ヶ月で再開にこぎ着けた仙台空港、復旧活動を担った米軍の活躍について、

NY タイムズが記事を出していました。非常に良記事なので要約をご覧ください。

NYTimes.com: “Quietly, U.S. Troops Help Japan Reopen Sendai Airport”

by Martin Fackler: 13 April 2011


http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/14/world/asia/14sendai.html?ref=asia
     

4月13日[水曜日]東北最大の都市仙台の空港から民間機が飛び立った。

3月11日の巨大地震以来始めての民間機だった。
しかし空港が再開したとき、空港の片付けを行なった米空軍第 353 在沖縄特殊作戦部隊の

20 名を越える隊員も、海兵隊ほかの 260 名の兵隊も、空港には残っていなかった。

On Wednesday, the airport in Sendai, one of northern Japan’s largest cities,

nearly 200 miles northeast of Tokyo,
reopened to commercial flights for the first time since the earthquake and tsunami struck on March 11.
But when the airport resumed civilian operations, the two dozen members of the Air Force unit,
the 353rd Special Operations Group, were not on hand to celebrate.
 Nor were most of the 260 Marines and soldiers who also joined the cleanup.

彼らはすでに身仕舞をして立ち去っていたのだ。

彼らがいなかったことは日本における米軍の微妙な立場を示すものだ。
日本で最大の救助作戦を行なったにもかかわらず、

米軍基地のホスト国日本の立場を害することがないよう慎重に配慮したものだ。

They had already packed up and gone. Their absence reflected the balance the United States military has tried to strike in Japan,
where it has undertaken one of its largest relief operations, while also being careful not to be seen as taking a role that might upstage its hosts.

「我々の目的は、我々がここにいたことさえ気づかないようにすることだった」と第 353 部隊のひとり

John Traxler 少佐は語った。
先週彼は、ラジオを背負って、航空機の滑走路管制を行なっていた。

コントロールタワーはまだ修理が済んでいなかったからだ。

“Our goal is for no one to notice that we were even here,” one of the 353rd’s members,
 Maj. John Traxler, said last week. At that time, he was directing taxiing aircraft with a radio on his back because the control tower was still under repair.

 
米軍が残っていなかったからといって、米軍の劇的な援助作戦の成功を損なうわけではない。
この作戦には1万8千人の隊員と20隻の戦艦、原子力空母 Ronald Reagan まで参加したのだ。
ペンタゴンはこれを「トモダチ作戦」と名付けたが、5万人の米軍部隊が駐留している日本に対し

善意の関係を醸成しようとするものだった。

This is not to say that the United States military has shied from trumpeting its sweeping aid operation,
 involving 18,000 people and 20 ships, including the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier Ronald Reagan.
The Pentagon has dubbed it Operation Tomodachi, Japanese for “friend,” reflecting its goal of fostering good will in a nation that hosts 50,000 American troops .

「仙台空港を開くことが最優先事項であることは明らかだった。しかしみんな諦めていた」と
 Robert P. Toth 大佐[第 353 在沖縄特殊作戦部隊司令官]はいう。
彼は上官に仙台空港をアメリカの援助のハブとする計画を持ち込んだ。

“It was clear that opening Sendai Airport was the No. 1 priority, but everyone had written it off,

” Colonel Toth said.
He approached his superiors with a plan to turn it into a hub for American relief.


巨大地震の翌日調査のためヘリコプターを飛ばしたとき、仙台空港はまだ2メートルの水の底だった。

He said that when the unit made an initial helicopter survey the day after the earthquake,

the airport was still under eight feet of water.

3日後日本の基地から空輸されたハンビーで部隊が到着した。
最初の仕事は滑走路を片付けて、航空機が着陸できるだけのスペースを確保することだった。
その後数週間にわたって日米双方は、津波で滑走路に押し流された5千台以上の車両を移動して、

空港の周辺にきれいに並べた。

When the unit arrived three days later, driving in on Humvees that been flown to a Japanese air base a few hours away,
the first task was clearing enough of the runway for aircraft to land. In the following weeks,
the Americans and Japanese moved more than 5,000 cars that had been washed onto the runway by the waves,
lining them up in neat rows along the edge of airport.

津波によってコントロールタワーが破損したので、米軍は数週間の間バックパックラジオで

米軍用機の管制を行なった。
仙台空港が水曜日に再開されたとき、管制は少しずつ日本側に移行した。

With the control tower damaged by the waves, the Americans ran the airport for weeks,
guiding their military planes in and out from backpack radios. Ahead of Wednesday’s reopening, control was slowly restored to the Japanese.

3月15日以来、米軍はこの空港を使って 200 万トン以上の食料、水、毛布を被災地に運んだと

Toth 大佐はいう。

Since March 15, Colonel Toth said the Americans had used the airport to distribute more than two million tons of food, water and blankets.

「我々の仕事は被災地に滑走路を作ることだ」と米空軍の Traxler 少佐はいう。

「しかしこれほどの被害は戦場においてすら見たことがない。」

“This is what we do: look for a disaster, and set up a runway,” said Major Traxler of the Air Force.
“But I have never seen this level of devastation, not even in combat.”


目立たず、しかし効率的に。米軍の日本人に対する繊細な配慮ぶりが伝わってきます。
同盟関係にある両国、ともすれば緊急時に米軍は動くのか?という論調も見られた昨今。
今回の米軍の迅速な行動が、強固な日米同盟の何よりの証明として、

後世に語り継がれることを望んでやみません。

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조용하게 떠난 미군 U.S. Airmen Quietly Reopen Wrecked Airport in Japan

지난 주 13일, 불과1개월에 재개에 도달한 센다이 공항, 복구 활동을 담당한 미군의 활약에 대해서,

NY 타임즈가 기사를 보내고 있었습니다.매우 양기사이므로 요약을 봐 주세요.

NYTimes.com: “Quietly, U.S. Troops Help Japan Reopen Sendai Airport”

by Martin Fackler: 13 April 2011


http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/14/world/asia/14sendai.html?ref=asia
     

4월 13일[수요일]토호쿠 최대의 도시 센다이의 공항으로부터 민간기가 날아올랐다.

3월 11일의 거대 지진 이래 최초의 민간기였다.
그러나 공항이 재개했을 때, 공항의 정리를 행한 미 공군 제 353 재오키나와 특수 작전부대의

20 명을 넘는 대원도, 해병대 다른 260 명의 군인도, 공항에는 남지 않았었다.

On Wednesday, the airport in Sendai, one of northern Japan’s largest cities,

nearly 200 miles northeast of Tokyo,
reopened to commercial flights for the first time since the earthquake and tsunami struck on March 11.
But when the airport resumed civilian operations, the two dozen members of the Air Force unit,
the 353rd Special Operations Group, were not on hand to celebrate.
 Nor were most of the 260 Marines and soldiers who also joined the cleanup.

그들은 벌써 몸치장을 해 떠나고 있었던 것이다.

그들이 없었던 (일)것은 일본에 있어서의 미군의 미묘한 입장을 나타내는 것이다.
일본에서 최대의 구조 작전을 행했음에도 불구하고,

미군 기지의 호스트국 일본의 입장을 해치는 것이 없게 신중하게 배려한 것이다.

They had already packed up and gone. Their absence reflected the balance the United States military has tried to strike in Japan,
where it has undertaken one of its largest relief operations, while also being careful not to be seen as taking a role that might upstage its hosts.

「우리의 목적은, 우리가 여기에 있던 것 조차 눈치채지 못하게 하는 것이었다」라고 제 353 부대의 혼자

John Traxler 소좌는 말했다.
지난 주그는, 라디오를 짊어지고, 항공기의 활주로 관제를 행하고 있었다.

관제탑은 아직 수리가 끝나지 않았기 때문이다.

“Our goal is for no one to notice that we were even here,” one of the 353rd’s members,
 Maj. John Traxler, said last week. At that time, he was directing taxiing aircraft with a radio on his back because the control tower was still under repair.

 
미군이 남지 않았으니까라고 하고, 미군의 극적인 원조 작전의 성공을 해치는 것은 아니다.
이 작전에는 1만 8천명의 대원과 20척의 전함, 원자력 항공 모함 Ronald Reagan 까지 참가했던 것이다.
펜타곤은 이것을 「트모다치 작전」이라고 이름 붙였지만, 5만명의 미군 부대가 주둔하고 있는 일본에 대해

선의의 관계를 양성하려고 하는 것이었다.

This is not to say that the United States military has shied from trumpeting its sweeping aid operation,
 involving 18,000 people and 20 ships, including the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier Ronald Reagan.
The Pentagon has dubbed it Operation Tomodachi, Japanese for “friend,” reflecting its goal of fostering good will in a nation that hosts 50,000 American troops .

「센다이 공항을 여는 것이 최우선 사항인 것은 분명했다.그러나 모두 단념하고 있었다」라고
 Robert P. Toth 대령[제 353 재오키나와 특수 작전부대 사령관]은 말한다.
그는 상관에게 센다이 공항을 미국의 원조의 허브로 할 계획을 반입했다.

“It was clear that opening Sendai Airport was the No. 1 priority, but everyone had written it off,

” Colonel Toth said.
He approached his superiors with a plan to turn it into a hub for American relief.


거대 지진의 다음날 조사를 위해 헬리콥터를 몰았을 때, 센다이 공항은 아직 2미터의 물의 바닥이었다.

He said that when the unit made an initial helicopter survey the day after the earthquake,

the airport was still under eight feet of water.

3일 후일책의 기지로부터 공수된 한비로 부대가 도착했다.
최초의 일은 활주로를 정리하고, 항공기가 착륙 가능한 한의 스페이스를 확보하는 것이었다.
그 후수주간에 걸쳐서 일·미 쌍방은, 해일로 활주로에 밀려난 5천대 이상의 차량을 이동하고,

공항의 주변에 예쁘게 늘어놓았다.

When the unit arrived three days later, driving in on Humvees that been flown to a Japanese air base a few hours away,
the first task was clearing enough of the runway for aircraft to land. In the following weeks,
the Americans and Japanese moved more than 5,000 cars that had been washed onto the runway by the waves,
lining them up in neat rows along the edge of airport.

해일에 의해서 관제탑이 파손했으므로, 미군은 수주간의 사이 백 팩 라디오로

미군용기의 관제를 행했다.
센다이 공항이 수요일에 재개되었을 때, 관제는 조금씩 일본 측에 이행 했다.

With the control tower damaged by the waves, the Americans ran the airport for weeks,
guiding their military planes in and out from backpack radios. Ahead of Wednesday’s reopening, control was slowly restored to the Japanese.

3월 15일 이래, 미군은 이 공항을 사용해 200 만 톤 이상의 식료, 물, 모포를 재해지에 옮겼다고

Toth 대령은 말한다.

Since March 15, Colonel Toth said the Americans had used the airport to distribute more than two million tons of food, water and blankets.

「우리의 일은 재해지에 활주로를 만드는 것이다」라고 미 공군의 Traxler 소좌는 말한다.

「그러나 이 정도의 피해는 전장에 있어조차 본 적이 없다.」

“This is what we do: look for a disaster, and set up a runway,” said Major Traxler of the Air Force.
“But I have never seen this level of devastation, not even in combat.”


눈에 띄지 않고, 그러나 효율적으로.미군의 일본인에 대한 섬세한 배려상이 전해져 옵니다.
동맹 관계에 있는 양국, 자칫하면 긴급시에 미군은 움직이는 것인가?그렇다고 하는 논조도 볼 수 있던 요즈음.
이번 미군의 신속한 행동이, 강고한 일·미 동맹의 무엇보다의 증명으로서

후세에 구전되는 것을 바래 마지않습니다.

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コメント ( 24 )
  • 良い記事ですね。^^ 米軍さん、ありがとう、そして、ありがとう。^^

    15年前

  • 日本の心を理解した奥ゆかしくて美しい話しだ。

    15年前

  • たしか 震災後の仙台空港に アメリカの空挺部隊が パラシュート降下したらしいですね

    15年前

  • ( ^▽^)<今度、JR仙石線の瓦礫撤去を在日米陸軍の第35兵站任務部隊が行うそうですね、

    15年前

  • その点 どっかの国は大騒ぎして何も出来なかったね

    15年前

  • 空輸で200万トン?!?! とんでもなく凄い物量だよ!!

    15年前

  • いい話だね。今回のアメリカ軍の活躍はもっと報道されて良いレベルだ。

    15年前

  • Lv 3

    有事の際の米軍は、さすがに手馴れていて頼りになりますね。沖縄の米軍基地問題解決の一歩としても作用するかと。

    15年前

  • YouTubeでも日本とアメリカの展開能力の高さを評価する香港と台湾を結ぶ番組をアップしていた。とくに米空母の展開能力の高さはすごいと思う。

    15年前

  • 米軍の撤退のやり方が「我々がここにいたことさえ気づかないようにする」だなんて、西部劇のラストシーンのようで格好いい。アメリカのダンディズムを感じる。

    15年前

  • そのあと言いふらすけどね

    15年前

  • ありがたいことだけど、過去白人との商売、各種交流で笑顔と奉仕がタダだったことは殆ど・・・。国も同じ。今度は様々な形で「騒々しく巨額の請求書」が、、と、思う。

    15年前

  • 上の思惑などはあるかもしれませんが、そんなことは関係なく思える見事な仕事ですね。

    15年前

  • Lv 0

    ハングックノムドルみたいだったらあのようにアメリカが手伝ってくれてもアメリカを罵ったの??? 恩をあだで返す事は南韓(特に全羅道)と北朝鮮がまったく同じだね

    15年前

  • 人民解放軍の進駐を阻止してくれてありがとうだな。情けない民主党は何もしなかったな。

    15年前

  • 米軍はシェーンのように格好よく去っていったけれど、ワシントンは後から高額な請求書を突きつけてくるでしょうね。どこかの国のように面と向かっては言わないけど。

    15年前

  • 請求書とは直接的代価でなく、グアム、沖縄、思いやり予算、その他の話。今回の震災で一番得をしたのは在日米軍。お友達作戦は後々の日米交渉の重要な戦術。

    15年前

  • 地政学的に重要といわれる沖縄も、近い将来の兵器体系を加味すれば、今後重要なのはグアム。価値の低い物を価値の高い物としてカードを切るのが上手なのが白人。

    15年前

  • それを、沖縄返還交渉の際、見事に米国に演じられ日本はババをひいている。今の普天間も似たようなもの。そういったものに全てが繋がって高いものにつく・・・という意味。

    15年前

  • 請求書・・・たしかに後払いは高くつくでしょうねw。しかし初動で自衛隊の2割に及ぶヘリをはじめ大量の輸送手段・人員の投入など、初動の凄さは特筆もの。

    15年前

  • 同盟相手国の危機に、米国はどのような事をするのか、これ以上明快な回答はないでしょう。このような能力の整備・維持が、日本だけで可能とはとても思えません。

    15年前

  • 費用対効果の検証は請求書を見てからですが、全部自前で揃えたときの調達価格とヒューマンリソースを考えると、あながち高いとも言えないような気がしますね。

    15年前

  • 在日米軍基地の整備兵達が任務ではなくボランティアで復興に来てましたよ。

    15年前

  • 支援とは最終的には自分たちを必要としなくなる事が成功ですから、よく心得ていると思います。

    15年前

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