NORFOLK, Va. - Hospital ship USNS Comfort (T-AH 20) departed Naval Station Norfolk on Oct. 29 in support of Continuing Promise 2022 mission in the U.S. 4th Fleet area of operations. Comfort is scheduled to visit Guatemala, Honduras, Colombia, Dominican Republic, and Haiti. During these mission stops, CP medical teams will focus on working alongside partner nation medical personnel to provide care aboard and at land-based medical sites. “I’m excited to work with such an enthusiastic and professional medical team,” said Capt. Kathryn Elliott, commanding officer of USNS Comfort, and who earned her Flight Surgery wings at NAS Pensacola. Since its inaugural mission in 2007, CP missions have treated more than 582,000 patients and conducted over 7,000 surgeries in the region. Comfort’s current mission will be its 12th CP mission. (US Navy 10/24/22) Regional Note: Personnel from medical commands at NAS Meridian and NCBC Gulfport, Miss., NAS New Orleans, and Panama City and Pensacola, Fla., have served, and may be serving, on CP missions in the past decades.
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