and the Dems are complaining that there hasn’t been a formal Declaration of War
That is brilliant.
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I toured the Comfort when it first came out of the ship yard years and years ago.
“Getting series”
Contingency plans are meant to be serious and not often used.
Smart move.
A good friend was chief anesthesiologist on the Comfort during Gulf War I. He was very glad to have very few patients.
If it turns out that they really do need more beds in a hurry, I think there may be some cruise ships avail.
Godspeed to the Navy !!
United Together!!
Prayers UP!!!
We Saw the Sea (Fred Astaire in Follow the Fleet)
This is good excuse to up date and test those resources.
Good idea.
We can and will beat this!
I’d much rather be on one of those ships, not a hospital, if I were sick.
The huge manatee of it.....
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I worked for Marriott for many years. I would bet they have several hotels that have been scheduled for renovation. Perhaps these properties could be used as hospitals.
Re Getting Serious. I’m patting myself on the back because I wrote about this in an FR “comment” a couple days ago in regards to what kind of medical aid capacities the US has that have not been utilized so far.
I mentioned that we moved a 10,000 person city (U.S. Pacific Fleet) to Indonesia to aid in rescue/medical operations after the tsunami about 6-7 years ago. Much of it was medical and air/land rescue ops.
We also have major airlift capabilities via the Air Force to take whole field hospitals to any place in the US or the world if and when needed. It is one of America’s greatest aid/rescue/medical help technologies and has been deployed all over the world for many decades, often without decent media coverage of these great people and machines.
You also have both regular and Reserve Army units (esp. medical), plus National Guard medical units, that can and have helped people in need around the world. Again, great organizations.
I know what we can do as my son’s unit, the 299th Army Reserve (Activated), MRB (Bridge builders), took all their heavy equipment to Iraq during OIF and put up the first ribbon bridge under combat conditions, built other temporary and permanent bridges (girder, etc). and also conducted amphibious and land combat operations against the Republican Guard. Then they took prisoners, aided civilians in need, etc.
We are Americans. If something has to be done right and on time, it will be done by Americans, esp. by the military.
The USS Comfort and Mercy have been leaders in bringing medical help to hundreds of thousands, if not millions during their lifetime of operations and will continue to do their magnificent work wherever and whenever they go into operation. A salute to the ships and their highly trained and motivated crews. If there is a disaster, those are the people the victims want to see first.
Good news.
Are they headed to NY?
When is the 4077th coming into action?
Getting ahead of the game - how many of us even thought about these assets as “models” predicted the swamping of local clinics/hospitals?