Talk:USNS Comfort (T-AH-20)

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[edit] Location

This ship is in Boston,MA (as of March 5,2007)in the Boston Drydocks.

[edit] Humanitarian Mission

As it happens, the USNS Comfort is presently on a mission in the southern hemisphere... Quite the operation.

From the [1] website:

"On March 5, President Bush announced the deployment of USNS Comfort (T-AH 20) to U.S. Southern Command’s area of focus during a speech in Washington, D.C. (see speech transcript). He said the embarked medical crew and volunteers from United States non-governmental organizations such as Project Hope and Operation Smile, will treat 85,000 patients and perform 1,500 surgeries as the ship makes port calls in Belize, Colombia, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Suriname, and Trinidad and Tobago."

I'd edit the article myself, but I lack skill using wiki markup and don't really have time to learn... Sorry. Perhaps somebody will see this note and have at it. --201.238.189.11 15:22, 16 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Medical Staff

mention needs to be made of where her medical staff come from. i.e. where their permanent duty stations are.i know a lot of them are at nnmc bethesda, but i don't know the whole story.Toyokuni3 (talk) 21:57, 3 May 2008 (UTC)