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Oct. 22, 2018

 USNS Comfort Begins Medical Site Set-up in Ecuador 

                                ESMERALDAS, Ecuador – A team comprised of more than 900 personnel, embarked aboard USNS Comfort (T-AH 20), commenced their first mission stop as part of U.S. Southern Command’s Enduring Promise initiative in Esmeraldas, Ecuador, Oct. 20.            

Oct. 22, 2018

 Histopathology on USNS Comfort 

                                Beakers and jars line a lab table in a small room. The colored fluid in them sways from side to side as the ship gently rocks while at sea. A hospital corpsman takes a translucent, paper-thin skin sample from a machine and dips it in the liquid, where spots and circles appear, lightly colored by the substance they were put in.            

Oct. 17, 2018

 U.S. Navy Medical Team Begins Subject Matter Expert Exchanges in El Salvador 

                                U.S. Navy medical professionals assigned to Southern Partnership Station’s (SPS) Fleet Health Engagement Team (FHET) landed in El Salvador Oct. 3 to participate in subject matter expert exchanges (SMEE) and partner capacity building engagements with El Salvadorian military professionals in La Union as part of SPS 2018.            

Oct. 17, 2018

 Preventive Healthcare: Comfort's Plan Heading into First Stop 

                                CARIBBEAN SEA (NNS) -- Moving closer to providing care in the first country of an 11-week medical mission in support of Enduring Promise 2018, providers and corpsmen aboard hospital ship USNS Comfort (T-AH 20) are eager to execute a major initiative­ — preventive health care.            

Oct. 16, 2018

 MEDEL provides orphans dental care 

                    SOTO CANO AIR BASE, HONDURAS —                                                Members of Joint Task Force-Bravo Medical Element provided care for children from a local orphanage at a clinic in Comayagua, Oct. 11.            

Oct. 16, 2018

 USNS Comfort Conducts Mass Casualty Training Exercise 

                                ATLANTIC OCEAN (Oct. 13, 2018) – Doctors, nurses and other embarked medical personnel aboard the hospital ship USNS Comfort (T-AH 20) conducted a mass casualty training exercise in preparation for visiting medical sites in Central and South America, Oct. 13, 2018.            

Oct. 15, 2018

 USNS Comfort Departs for Medical Assistance Mission in South and Central America 

                                U.S. Navy hospital ship USNS Comfort (T-AH 20) departed Naval Station Norfolk, Virginia, Oct. 10, on an 11-week medical assistance mission to South and Central America where personnel will work closely with host-nation health and government partners in Ecuador, Peru, Colombia and Honduras.            

Oct. 12, 2018

 Navy Entomologists Team Up to Build Disease Detection Capacity in Honduras 

                                Entomologists from the U.S. Naval Medical Research Unit No. 6 (NAMRU-6) and the Navy Entomology Center of Excellence (NECE) partnered with Joint Task Force-Bravo Medical Element (JTF-B MEDEL) preventive medicine to develop a disease detection capability for the region. This cutting-edge work is supported by the Armed Forces Health Surveillance Board-Global Emerging Infections Surveillance (GEIS).            

Oct. 11, 2018

 U.S. Navy Seabees Complete Well Drilling Operations in Colombia 

                                RIOHACHA, Colombia (NNS) -- Sailors assigned to Naval Mobile Construction Battalion (NMCB) 133 completed water-well drilling exploration operations Oct. 3 in the rural community of Riohacha, Colombia as part of Southern Partnership Station (SPS) 2018.             

Oct. 9, 2018

 Democracy Providing Stability, Security in the Hemisphere, Mattis Says in Mexico 

                    WASHINGTON —                                                Democracy is succeeding in Latin America and can be a beacon to the rest of the world, Defense Secretary James N. Mattis said at the Conference of Defense Ministers of the Americas in Cancun, Mexico.            

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