The U.S. has over 4,700 “boots on the ground,” including 3,000 soldiers from the Army’s 82nd Airborne division, and another 10,700 service people on ships off Haiti, Lt. Gen. P.K. Keen, commander of the U.S. military’s operations in Haiti, said today. The military is helping build a 5,000-bed post-surgical hospital for Haitians recovering from injuries, he said.

In Washington, Clinton lashed out at critics of the U.S. military’s role in bringing relief to Haiti after a magnitude 7.0 earthquake killed at least 125,000 people in the Western Hemisphere’s poorest nation, destroyed a third of the island’s capital, Port-au-Prince, and left as many as 3 million people without food, water or sanitation.

“I deeply resent those who attack our country, the generosity of our people and the leadership of our president in trying to respond to historically disastrous conditions after the earthquake,” Clinton told a group of State Department employees.

“Some of the international press either misunderstood or deliberately misconstrued what was a civilian and military response, both of them necessary in order to be able to deliver aid to the Haitians who desperately needed it,” Clinton said.