Hospital ships for the State Department?
The Navy’s concern is cost of the ships and deployment costs. But as the post points out the diplomatic benefits of supplying a hospital ship to a nation suffering from a natural disaster are great.
6/9/2007
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Are you aware of the organization called Mercy Ships? You might want to visit their website at mercyships.org and click on the American flag (or any flag if you speak another language or dialect). It is representing the United States very well indeed in an indirect way, and certainly deserves more publicity than it gets in American media.
Comment by Mary — 6/12/2007 @ 8:10 pm
Hospital Ship Comfort Departs to South America In some of the most positive military news of recent memory we get word of preparations being made aboard the USNS Comfort for departure tomorrow’s departure on a humanitarian mission to South America. The mission was announced by President Bush…
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