Caption:
PACIFIC OCEAN (July 22, 2007) -- Military Sealift Command hospital ship
USNS Comfort (T-AH 20) personnel depart the ship via lifeboat en route
to clinic sites ashore in Nicaragua. Comfort is on a four-month
humanitarian deployment to Latin America and the Caribbean to provide
medical treatment to patients in a dozen countries. While deployed,
Comfort is under the operational control of U.S. Naval Forces Southern
Command and tactical control of Destroyer Squadron 24. U.S. Navy photo
by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Joshua
Karsten (RELEASED)
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