U.S. airmen, members of the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force and various Japanese civilian agencies load water hoses onto a truck at Yokota Air Base, Japan, for a water pumping station to be employed at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant during Operation Tomodachi on March 26, 2011. The Tokyo Electrical Power Company added an additional water pumping station to pump fresh water instead of seawater to cool the reactors at the damaged nuclear power facility with the help of the U.S. government and various other agencies. As part of Operation Tomodachi, the U.S. military has humanitarian assistance capabilities positioned in the affected region supporting emergency relief efforts at the request of the Japanese government.