The USNS Comfort passed underneath the Bay Bridge today on its way to Haiti. Fortunately for us, one of our viewers was in the right place at the right time and got a rare glimpse of this mission. 
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16 comments:
May it go with our blessings and prayers. This is the great thing about your blog. Instant reporting. jackkcharl@aol.com
were sending $100 million to a country with 9 million people? wtf?
Along the way, the staff of the Comfort will be training and strategizing as they get more input from people already on the ground. They'll be working 24/7 on the way and 25/8 when they get there.
Go Navy!
4:20PM - $111 per person is absolutely nothing. Just think about the overnight shipping for everything!
that looks like a BMW 7 series hood.
what would he population of the country have to do with the amount of aid? they aren't walking around handing people cash they are helping to rebuild a city and region that has been destroyed, roads, water, buildings, sewage. As a Christian, I am all for it, sorry some people don't think that way.
It's funny tho one of your readers took a picture of USNS Comfort. If you go to the link at the bottom of the page there is a photo of a passenger on the ship that is taking a photo of the Bay Bridge. Lol kinda ironic in my opinion.
If you follow the link you'll see a photo of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge as taken FROM the Comfort.
How cool is this?
And, to the ship, Godspeed.
That would be USS Comfort. :)
Go Navy!
Really cool
Were they supposed to be in the middle east?
Sorry, but it's USNS.
United States Naval Ship or USNS is the prefix designation given to non-commissioned ships of the United States Navy. These are usually auxiliary support vessels owned by the US Navy and operated by Military Sealift Command that are in service and crewed by civilians rather than Navy personnel. In comparison, US Navy ships commissioned into service have the designation USS and are crewed by US Navy personnel.
Much of the full-time functioning shipboard crew of the Comfort is civilian.
When deployed, almost all of the medical crew is Navy, including doctors, nurses, laboratory officers, corpsmen, dentists, dental technicians, etc. It's pretty much a 1000 bed full service Naval hospital. Sometimes there are officers and specialists from other services, like Army veterinarians and vet techs, Public Health Service epidemiologists, etc.
I'm a Christian too.......So, When The USS Comfort finishes in Haiti.....Turn the hell around and help the homeless,helpless,discarded American Citizens dying daily!
4:20
the money has nothing to do with the number of people there but everything to do with the level of destruction and the cost of rescue and aid operations. God forbid something of that magnitude ever happen here on the shore - although it could someday as we have the potential for hurricanes - would you want the amount of aid based on the number of people or the amount of damage?
WWJD???? So much for Compassionate Conservatives I guess.
no it isnt the USS Comfort.That ship is decommissioned. it IS the USNS Comfort. stick to cheering for army.
interesting quote. anybody want to tell me whats changed in the last 120 years?
Assistant Secretary of State Alvey Adee summed up the US view of Haiti in 1888 when he called it "a public nuisance at our door".
"Compassionate Conservatism"
haha you people are the backwash of our society...
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