page_title: USS Wasp (LHD-1)
section_title: Medical facilities
hierarchical_section_title: USS Wasp (LHD-1) / Specifications / Medical facilities
caption_attribution_description: The U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Coral Sea (CV-43), foreground, and the amphibious assault ship USS Wasp (LHD-1) sail alongside one another. The Coral Sea was returning to Norfolk, Virginia (USA), at the end of her last deployment before her decommissioning, whereas the Wasp had been commissioned only two months before the photo was taken.
context_page_description: USS Wasp (LHD-1) is a United States Navy multipurpose amphibious assault ship, and the lead ship of her class. She is the tenth USN vessel to bear the name since 1775, with the last two ships named Wasp being aircraft carriers. She was built by the Ingalls Shipbuilding division of Litton in Pascagoula, Mississippi. Wasp and her sister ships are the first specifically designed to accommodate new Landing Craft Air Cushion for fast troop movement over the beach, and Harrier II Vertical/Short Take-Off and Landing jets which provide close air support for the assault force. She can also accommodate the full range of Navy and Marine Corps helicopters, the tiltrotor MV-22 Osprey, the F-35B Lightning II multi-role fighter, conventional landing craft, and amphibious vehicles.
context_section_description: Wasp has medical and dental facilities capable of providing intensive medical assistance to 600 casualties, whether combat incurred or brought aboard ship during humanitarian missions. The ship's corpsmen also provide routine medical/dental care to the crew and embarked personnel. Major medical facilities include four main and two emergency operating rooms, four dental operating rooms, x-ray rooms, a blood bank, laboratories, and patient wards. In addition, three battle dressing stations are located throughout the ship, as well as a casualty collecting area at the flight deck level. Medical elevators rapidly transfer casualties from the flight deck and hangar bay to the medical facilities.
caption: Wasp cruising alongside the aircraft carrier Coral Sea in September 1989
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