USNS Comfort. Navy photo
by DAVID AXE
The U.S. Navy hospital ship Comfort is leaving Saturday for Haiti with a “staff of more than 600 [that] will include 560 medical personnel and 64 civil service mariners,” according to the Associated Press. Comfort‘s Haiti mission will be the ship’s biggest ever, according to Captain James Ware.
I covered Comfort during her 2009 mission to Latin America:
Part One: The Commodore
Part Two: The Commodore
Part Three: The Commodore
Part Four: The Doctor
Part Five: The Doctor
Part Six: The Nurse
Part Seven: The Coastie
Part Eight: The Master
Part Nine: The Master
Part Ten: The Aviator
Related posts:
- Navy Commander on Haiti Hospital-Ship Delays
- Chinese, U.S. Troops on Joint Haiti Patrols
- Offiziere.ch: Floating Causeway Boosts Hospital Ship Ops
- Mental Floss: How to Win Friends and Innoculate People
- Navy and Marines Begin Treating Patients off Haiti
- Debating Japan’s (Lack of) Hospital Ships
- Colombian River-Barge Surgery Headed to Haiti
[...] · Leave a Comment “Last, but most importantly, you’ll want to check out the excellent 10-part series David Axe at War is Boring wrote about on the USNS Comfort during a mission to Latin America last [...]
[...] War Is Boring: Hospital Ship Backgrounder ยป [...]
[...] U.S. Navy’s Comfort isn’t the only hospital ship headed for Haiti, to help out in the aftermath of last [...]
[...] reached Haiti on January 18, right after the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson and right before the hospital ship Comfort, which boasts the most lavish hospital facilities. It wasn’t clear how the three [...]