When the Comfort deployed for Katrina it had to take on 30 tons of supplies in Baltimore, then stop in JAX to take on 300 personeel who had been recalled from other units, plus another 70 tons of supplies
And that was to aid a disaster surrounded by functioning infrastructure
The liberal asshats resent calling 911 in the middle of a hurricane ( 2 hurricanes) and not having a 1000 bed fully staffed , fully supplied floating hospital show up in 2 days
So lets see J-Lo, Ellen Degenerate and Patricia Arquette call on Hillary to do better - like the Clintins did in Haiti
From my 20 years of experience Naval ships do not sit in a “ready to deploy” status. There are deployed and non-deployed ships. It does no good for any ship to deploy for a mission without supplies. Virtually everything has an expiration date, from food to munitions to medication. Millions of dollars of logistics are not going to be loaded on a ship tied up to a pier for six months. Where I work we recently outfitted an offshore supply vessel to house FEMA workers in the U.S. Virgin Islands. It took over a week to get this little ship of about 300 feet ready to go. I can only imagine how much food,water, medicine, fuel etc. had to go with the USNS Comfort to make it effective and self sustaining.