(USNS) Comfort Arrives in Gulf, Ready for Relief Support

[MaineDem]

PASCAGOULA, Miss. (NNS) -- Crew members on board the Military Sealift Command hospital ship USNS Comfort (T-AH 20) arrived at Pier Gulf's Bayou Casotte Terminal here Sept. 10 to support the Federal Emergency Management Agency's (FEMA) effort to provide medical support and humanitarian aid to victims of Hurricane Katrina.

Comfort brings with it unique capabilities for humanitarian relief missions, including helicopter lift capability, advanced medical equipment, a wide range of medical capabilities, berthing and personnel support, and logistical supply assets to support medical operations ashore.

Specific components of the ship's mission have not yet been determined due to the fluid nature of the relief effort; however Comfort's leadership says the ship's crew remains flexible and ready for any task.

Comfort and its more-than-500-person crew are initially slated to function at a 250-bed capacity for patient care. Should there exist a need to support a respite care role for relief workers, the ship's capabilities can be stretched to accommodate more than 700 beds.

http://www.news.navy.mil/search/display.asp?story_id=20015

Finally!

[unhappycamper]

1. Wow - only 12 days to get to the scene. . . .

Pretty impressive! :sarcasm:

[TheDebbieDee]

8. A perfect example of closing the barn door .......

after the horses have gotten out!

The Keystone Kops of the * Misadministration have struck yet again!

[shraby]

2. I wondered why they sent those ships in the first place.

I knew they wouldn't arrive in time to do much. They should have been sent when it first appeared that Katrina would be such a strong storm because no matter where it hit in the gulf region, there would be unimaginable destruction.

[NRaleighLiberal]

3. Get the "Mission Accomplished sign ready...and chimp's flight suit.

[MaineDem]

4. Oh dear, he is going back on Sunday isn't he! (nt)

[MichiganVote]

5. Have they hung the "Mission Accomplished" sign yet

[riverwalker]

6. Our Homeland is Secure

Remember 'murkins, when disaster strikes, we will be there.
Ready to assist you once you crawl and swim to safety, eating snakes and drinking from water heaters, for twelve days and nights, we will be there. Eventually. Sec. Rumsfeld was at the baseball game in San Diego the during the hurricane, so things got a late start.

[Zenlitened]

7. P.S. Don't vote for Democrats. They won't keep 'Murka secure.

:mad: :mad: :mad:

Republicans cannot be trusted to govern.

[Porcupine]

9. USS Bataan with 6 operating rooms was unused off NOLA

and 600 beds, and amphibious assault boats, water tankers and MRE's. The were told to stand down last Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. Then it left for parts unknown.

Anybody got the link?

[krkaufman]

10. "ship's crew remains flexible and ready for any task" -- that's good...

How about handing out fliers with FEMA's phone number?