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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsClinton pressed Trump to deploy hospital ship Comfort to Puerto Rico. Now it's preparing to go.
As the devastation from Hurricane Maria became more apparent Sunday, former Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton implored President Trump and Defense Secretary Jim Mattis to help the people of Puerto Rico. Send the Navy, she tweeted, especially the hospital ship USNS Comfort.
(President Trump, Sec. Mattis, and DOD should send the Navy, including the USNS Comfort, to Puerto Rico now. These are American citizens.)
Two days later, Federal Emergency Management Agency Director Brock Long announced that the Navy will soon do exactly that. The decision, disclosed in front of the White House on Tuesday afternoon, was later confirmed by the Navy. It comes after days of critics saying that the U.S. government isn't doing enough to support hurricane relief in Puerto Rico, a U.S. territory of nearly 3.5 million people that faces months without electricity and a long rebuilding process.
Navy Cmdr. Mike Kafka, a service spokesman, said that the ship will leave within the next four days, and it will take up to five additional days to reach Puerto Rico. He called the move a "prudent decision in light of current conditions on ground."
Since then, the call for the Comfort has come to symbolize something larger: A call for the Pentagon to send more.
More food. More water. More generators. More aircraft.
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(President Trump, Sec. Mattis, and DOD should send the Navy, including the USNS Comfort, to Puerto Rico now. These are American citizens.)
Two days later, Federal Emergency Management Agency Director Brock Long announced that the Navy will soon do exactly that. The decision, disclosed in front of the White House on Tuesday afternoon, was later confirmed by the Navy. It comes after days of critics saying that the U.S. government isn't doing enough to support hurricane relief in Puerto Rico, a U.S. territory of nearly 3.5 million people that faces months without electricity and a long rebuilding process.
Navy Cmdr. Mike Kafka, a service spokesman, said that the ship will leave within the next four days, and it will take up to five additional days to reach Puerto Rico. He called the move a "prudent decision in light of current conditions on ground."
Since then, the call for the Comfort has come to symbolize something larger: A call for the Pentagon to send more.
More food. More water. More generators. More aircraft.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/news/checkpoint/wp/2017/09/26/clinton-pressured-trump-to-deploy-hospital-ship-comfort-to-puerto-rico-now-its-on-the-way/
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Clinton pressed Trump to deploy hospital ship Comfort to Puerto Rico. Now it's preparing to go. (Original Post)
ehrnst
Sep 2017
OP
It should've been prepared to go on Day 1. Along with the needed military support.
SharonAnn
Sep 2017
#2
Me.
(35,454 posts)1. Now Maybe Media Knuckleheads Who Have Been Pressing Her To Do Something
Will shut up. Specifically Mika.
KR
SharonAnn
(13,772 posts)2. It should've been prepared to go on Day 1. Along with the needed military support.
Ms. Toad
(34,055 posts)3. So the mystery of how Trump awoke to the fact that they are US citizens is solved. n/t
delisen
(6,042 posts)4. Thank you Hillary Clinton for being presidential.
ehrnst
(32,640 posts)5. The people's president... (nt)