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            <div class="image-caption">221124-N-DF135-1011 U.S. NAVAL STATION GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba (Nov. 24, 2022) – Gen. Laura Richardson, commander, U.S. Southern Command, center, gives a holiday speech to Sailors, Marines, and Soldiers at a Thanksgiving lunch in the gold hill galley on U.S. Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, Cuba on Nov. 24, 2022. Comfort is deployed to U.S. 4th Fleet in support of Continuing Promise 2022, a humanitarian assistance and goodwill mission conducting direct medical care, expeditionary veterinary care, and subject matter expert exchanges with five partner nations in the Caribbean, Central and South America. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Deven Fernandez)</div>
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    <div><b>By Steven McLoud / U.S. Southern Command Public Affairs</b> <span class="date">/ Published Nov. 25, 2022</span></div>
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    <p>Servicemembers stationed at Naval Station Guantanamo received some distinguished visitors as Gen. Laura Richardson, commander of U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM), and members of the SOUTHCOM command team, joined them to celebrate the Thanksgiving holiday.</p>

<p>Coinciding with Richardson’s visit was the arrival of the USNS Comfort hospital ship, which is in the middle of a 7-week deployment as part of Continuing Promise ’22, a humanitarian mission providing medical and veterinary care to populations in select Latin American and the Caribbean countries.</p>

<p>The hospital ship most recently completed a week-long mission in Cartagena, Colombia, where teams provided medical assistance to over 5,000 people, performed approximately 80 surgeries, and affected the lives to more than 25,000 citizens with additional activities and programs.</p>

<p>Richardson and members of the SOUTHCOM team, served Thanksgiving meals to the crew of the USNS Comfort along with servicemembers and their families at the Naval Station.</p>

<p>“I wanted to thank each and every one of you for all that you do,” Richardson said, speaking briefly to those in attendance at the galley prior to enjoying her own meal. “You guys [with the Comfort] are bringing a face and a name to a humanitarian mission of what the United States is about. And we do it because people in the United States care about everybody else.”</p>

<p>At the conclusion of the festivities, Richardson returned to Miami with her team while the Comfort set sail for her next stop in the Dominican Republic.</p>
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