The following is a list of some of the military help pledged by governments to help the Indian Ocean nations hit by the Dec. 26 earthquake and tsunami : AUSTRALIA -- Australia has sent 350 soldiers to Indonesia along with four Iroquois helicopters. It has also set up a military field hospital in Aceh, sent four C-130 Hercules aircraft to Sumatra, and set up a water purification plant in Banda Aceh, producing 480,000 litres of clean water a day. -- Its troop supply ship HMAS Kanimbla is on its way to Aceh with an army engineering team of 150. The Australian Federal Police have also sent a 25-member forensic identification team to Phuket, Thailand. BANGLADESH: -- Bangladesh has dispatched 157 soldiers to Sri Lanka and Maldives. Two Bell-212 helicopters have started operations in affected areas and two C-130 aircraft have carried equipment and relief materials from Dhaka to Sri Lanka. BRITAIN: -- Britain has deployed two naval ships and a cargo plane. CHINA: -- The Chinese army (PLA) has airlifted nearly 500 tonnes of food, water, medicine and other relief supplies to tsunami victims, the China Daily said. The PLA is involved in relief operations in Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India and Thailand. --More 2157 Local Time 1857 GMT
