USNS Comfort Returns to Norfolk after 5-Month Deployment

Photo By Petty Officer 1st Class Kris Lindstrom | NORFOLK, Va. (Nov. 15, 2019) – Capt. Carolyn Rice, center-left, executive officer of Naval Medical Center Portsmouth (NMCP), and other NMCP leadership hold a sign to greet Sailors, Marines, and other medical and support staff after they disembark the hospital ship USNS Comfort (T-AH 20) after returning to Naval Station Norfolk following a five month deployment, Nov. 15. Comfort worked with health and government partners in Central America, South America, and the Caribbean to provide care on the ship and at land-based medical sites, helping to relieve pressure on national medical systems, including those strained by an increase in cross-border migrants. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Kris R. Lindstrom/Released  

NORFOLK, VIRGINIA, UNITED STATES

11.15.2019

Story by Petty Officer 2nd Class Kris Lindstrom 

Naval Medical Center - Portsmouth

The hospital ship USNS Comfort (T-AH 20) arrived back in Norfolk today after a five-month deployment to South America, Central America and the Caribbean where Comfort worked with health and government partners to provide care on the ship and at land-based medical sites, helping to relieve pressure on national medical systems, including those strained by an increase in cross-border migrants. Comfort departed on the mission in June.

• Date Taken: 11.15.2019
• Date Posted: 11.15.2019 15:35
• Story ID: 351963
• Location: NORFOLK, VIRGINIA, US