WTF? The USS Comfort Hospital Ship in MD HAS NOT LEFT YET?

[leftchick]

Cripes it will take a week to get there. :argh:



The U.S. Navy Hospital Ship Comfort sits moored in Baltimore Harbor in this January 3, 2003 file photo. The U.S. military on August 31, 2005, added Navy ships, including two helicopter assault vessels and the hospital ship Comfort, and dozens of helicopters to a massive relief effort in the wake of killer Hurricane Katrina. The military's Northern Command said the Comfort, with 12 operating rooms and 1,000 beds, would soon depart Baltimore for a weeklong trip to the area, and the helicopter carrier USS Bataan and another warship were already conducting rescue missions from off the Louisiana and Mississippi coasts. (Brendan McDermid/Files/Reuters)

[kikiek]

1. I heard some weren't arriving until Sept 8th. Don't know about this one

in particular.

[Be Brave]

2. I heard it will only be leaving tomorrow.

Right now, the USS Bataan is the ONLY navy ship offshore at the Gulf Coast directly involved in disaster relief. Go figure.

[Zuni]

3. unfortunately, it was probably not advance loaded and ready

and needed to be supplied with nessecities at the last minute

so sad i can barely think about it without feeling ill

[leftchick]

9. I can't help but think supplies

have been diverted to operation iraqi oil.

:(

[DebJ]

4. I thought it left two days ago! Good grief!

[leftchick]

6. They have been saying that the ships were leaving before they left

all week.

:grr:

[ClintonTyree]

18. That's the mighty propaganda wurlitzer playing......

'cause junior NEVER makes mistakes, you know?

[AnnieBW]

Bethesda Naval Hospital

A lot of the staff comes from Bethesda Naval Hospital, which kinda has their hands full of wounded Marines these days.

[leftchick]

7. well that explains everything.

fuck :cry:

[tanyev]

5. By the time it gets there, there won't be many people left

who need it. Maybe they can use it as a morgue.

[halsaxby]

8. I'm in Baltimore and we were told...

that the USS Comfort left yesterday. I never thought to go down and look to see if it was true.

[leftchick]

11. I just heard it is leaving on Friday

I wonder if they take dead bodies?

[BattyDem]

10. I heard it will arrive on September 8th!

:grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr:

[kittenpants]

12. then they'd better deploy the fucking morgue ship too!

cause that's going to be too late.

[leftchick]

13. contrast and compare with Clinton's FEMA

That ship or one like it would have been in position ready to respond immediately.

[Halliburton]

14. still in bmore i think

[Eloriel]

15. Link?

[leftchick]

19. there is no story link

it is a photo from Yahoo with a caption. That is all the information I have found. Sad to say AP and Reuters can't find the time to cover this.

Here is the photo link if you want but is just states the same as I have posted.

http://news.yahoo.com/photos/ss/events/ts/080304tropicalweathe/im:/050901/photos_pl_afp/050901204330_ms0an6xj_photo3

[Maple]

16. Capt. Nora Tyson and the USS Bataan

rescues more than 200 survivors

http://www.wvec.com/news/military/stories/wvec_military_090105_bataan_rescues.15c93e7b.html

[nonconformist]

17. Maybe by "rescue mission" they meant

"vessel to collect the dead bodies"