Continuing Promise 2009

Photo Credit: Donna Miles

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Chief Joseph Bone, USNS Comfort’s pharmacy technician, takes stock of the prescription drugs already arriving for the upcoming Continuing Promise 2009 mission March 4, 2009. Bone helped fill 122,000 prescriptions during Continuing Promise 2007.

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Last-minute preparations are under way aboard USNS Comfort here as it prepares to leave early next month for a four-month humanitarian assistance mission through Latin America and the Caribbean.

The hulking hospital ship -- three football fields long and one wide -- will deliver medical, dental, veterinary and engineering assistance in support of Continuing Promise 2009.

The mission, U.S. Southern Command’s fourth in as many years, will include visits to Antigua and Barbuda, Colombia, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Haiti, Nicaragua and Panama.

While providing critically needed assistance that reaffirms U.S. commitment to the region, Continuing Promise will provide a tremendous training opportunity for the way the United States and its partners would respond to a real-life disaster, explained Navy Capt. Robert G. Lineberry Jr., Comfort’s commodore.

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