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| Keywords: US Navy 030423-N-6967M-007 Cmdr. Claude Anderson and Lt. Cmdr Patricia McKay operate on a patient aboard the hospital ship.jpg en Aboard USNS Comfort T-AH 20 Apr 23 2003 -- Cmdr Claude Anderson and Lt Cmdr Patricia McKay operate on a patient aboard the hospital ship USNS Comfort T-AH 20 They performed over 55 surgeries on Iraqi and American personnel during Operation Iraqi Freedom Comfort is one of two hospital ships operated by Military Sealift Command and is designed to provide emergency on-site care for U S combatant forces deployed in war or other operations USNS Mercy T-AH 19 and Comfort each contain 12 fully-equipped operating rooms a 1 000 bed hospital facility digital radiological services a diagnostic and clinical laboratory a pharmacy an optometry lab a cat scan and two oxygen producing plants Both hospital ships are converted San Clemente-class super tankers Comfort set sail for New York City and provided housing laundry food medical and other services to volunteers and rescue personnel for nearly three weeks in the wake of the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center Comfort was activated again in December 2002 and sailed to the Arabian Gulf to support Operation Iraqi Freedom the multi-national coalition effort to liberate the Iraqi people eliminate Iraq s weapons of mass destruction and end the regime of Saddam Hussein U S Navy photo by Photographer's Mate 1st Class Shane T McCoy RELEASED 2003-04-23 030423-N-6967M-007 Navy http //www navy mil/view_image asp id 10865 U S Navy photo by Photographer's Mate 1st Class Shane T McCoy PD-USGov-Military-Navy Aboard USNS Comfort T-AH-20 Operating rooms Hospital gowns Photographs by Shane T McCoy | ||||
