USNS Comfort
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The USNS Comfort anchored off the coast of Puerto Barrios, Guatemala.
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CDR Steve Johnson, USPHS dentist, provides dental care in Valley of Peace, Belize.
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CAPT Craig Shepherd, Officer in Charge, aboard a helicopter.
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CAPT Cynthia Kunkel, USPHS environmental health officer, enjoying her ride as a passenger aboard one of the two helicopters (Painkiller 51 and 44) assigned to the USNS Comfort.
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CAPT Cynthia Kunkel, environmental health officer, collecting a water sample at a house near Costa Brava in El Salvador. Many water samples were collected and taken back to ship for analysis ? nearly all tested positive for coliforms and E. coli.
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LCDR Shirley, a Navy surgeon, and CDR Lowell, a USPHS surgeon, repair a child’s club foot.
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CAPT Shepherd and his fellow officers distributed stuff animals in a rural community near Trujillo, Peru. The toys were a great hit among the Peruvian children.
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CDR Jeffrey Lowell performed and/or assisted on approximately 50 operations while aboard the USNS Comfort. Procedures included inguinal hernia repairs, removal of tumors (breast, thyroid and soft tissue), excising shrapnel from an El Salvadoran soldier injured in Operation Iraqi Freedom, club foot repair and laparoscopic cholecystectomy (gall bladder removal).
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Left to right: LT Charles Brucklier, USPHS dental hygienist, is applying a dental sealant to a young El Salvadoran girl while SSGT April Paulson, dental assistant with the United States Air Force assists. The photo was taken at Unidad de Salud Acajutla, El Salvador.
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This photo was taken at Delfina Rivas, El Salvador. LT Charles Brucklier, USPHS dental hygienist, placing dental sealants on an El Salvadoran boy.
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Left to right, front row and one knee down: CAPT James Sutherland, LT Misty Rohrer, LCDR Angela Girgenti, CDR Monica Rueben, CAPT Cynthia Kunkel, CDR Jeffrey Lowell, CAPT Sarath Seneviratne and CAPT Arthur French.
Left to right, standing: CAPT Craig Shepherd (Officer-in-Charge), CDR Jose Serrano, CDR Kevin Prohaska, LT Charles Brucklier, CDR Kimberly Walker, CDR Carlos Rivera, CAPT Ana Maria Osorio, LCDR Gregory Langham, LTJG James Lyons, CDR Abraham Miranda, CDR Bob Smith.
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Left to right: CAPT Bruce Boynton, Commanding Officer ? USNS Comfort, LCDR Jennifer Tredway, and CAPT Craig Shepherd, Officer in Charge. LCDR Jennifer Tredway was just formally promoted aboard the USNS Comfort.
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A team of Commissioned Corps officers is serving on the USNS Comfort, a U.S. Navy hospital ship that departed Norfolk, VA, on June 15, to begin a medical, public health, and oral health mission in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Left to right, back row: CDR Steve Johnson, LCDR Catherine Rockwell, CAPT Arturo Bravo, Commodore Robert Kapcio (U.S. Navy), CAPT Craig Shepherd, CAPT Bruce Boynton (Comfort Commanding Officer, U.S. Navy), LCDR Jennifer Tredway, LCDR Lori Goodman, LT Joseph Shurina, CDR Ulana Bodnar, LCDR Karen Lee, LT William Williamson.
Left to right, front row: CDR Sheryl O?Shea, CDR Daniel Singer, LCDR Harry Ko, LT Amy Dayhoff, LCDR Eduardo Azziz-Baumgartner, CDR Diane Kelsch, CAPT Chris Brady, LTJG Lisa Begay.
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LCDR Joseph Simon speaks to patients in Colombia.
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LCDR Lisa Starnes treats a patient in Manta, Ecuador.
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CDR Thomas White treats a patient in Colombia.
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CDR Kevin Prohaska treats a patient in Peru.
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Crowd of patients in Trujillo, Peru.
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CDR Elvira Hall-Robinson with an 8-day old puppy.
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Front row, from left to right: LCDR Lisa Starnes, LTJG Nicole Langenderfer, LCDR Janice Kim, CDR Nita Sood, CAPT Angel Rodriguez-Espada, LCDR Sandra Bender, CDR Elvira Hall-Robinson, LT Nicole Glines, LCDR Sue Larkin, LTJG Paula Gomez.
Rear row, from left to right: CAPT Craig Shepherd, LT Jason Mangum, LCDR John Hariadi, LCDR Joseph Simon, CDR Thomas White, CAPT Phil Rapp, LCDR Ryan Fagan, CAPT Louisa Chapman.
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LT Jason Mangum uses a smoke tube to determine airflow direction in an isolation room.
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LT Jason Mangum commuting to work from the USNS Comfort aboard the hospitality boat. Once ashore, he and other providers travel by bus to the University Hospital, Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
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The crowd of patients in Port of Spain at the Moultan Hall Methodist School waiting for treatment was so large that local police were brought in to help control the crowds.
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After leaving the temporary provider site Moulton Methodist School in Trinidad, Acting Surgeon General RADM Kenneth P. Moritsugu was interviewed by a local radio station.
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Acting Surgeon General RADM Kenneth P. Moritsugu and CAPT Bruce Boynton, Commanding Officer ? USNS Comfort, have a post-breakfast discussion.
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Acting Surgeon General RADM Kenneth P. Moritsugu visits the temporary provider site Moulton Methodist School in Trinidad and speaks with pharmacy personnel. LCDR Andrei Nabakowski is on the far left.
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Acting Surgeon General RADM Kenneth P. Moritsugu is interviewed by Public Affairs Office personnel at a pierside temporary dental clinic while Corps dental hygienists provide care.
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CAPT Mary Reichler examines a police officer in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad.
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View of the sunset from the USNS Comfort.
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CAPT Renee Joskow treats an 11-year-old boy at the Groves Elementary School in Guyana.
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Dental hygienists LCDR Vickie Owens (right) and CDR Sandra Ferguson (left) treat a child at Groves Elementary School in Guyana.
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CAPT Sandra Shire treats a boy at Groves Elementary School in Guyana.
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Teaching at the Dr. Cheddi Jagan Dental School in Guyana.
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Teaching at the Dr. Cheddi Jagan Dental School in Guyana.
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Dental hygienists LTJG Nicole Langenderfer (left) and LTJG Paula Gomez (background) apply fluoride varnish to a patient in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
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Dentist LCDR Janice Kim (left) and an Air Force dental hygienist work together on a patient in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
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Dentist CAPT Angel Rodriguez-Espada examines teeth in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
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Physician CAPT Louisa Chapman presents the slide, ?What is a newly emerged strain of flu? Influenza Viruses & Antigenic Change? at a training in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
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Secretary Mike Leavitt with dentist LCDR Janice Kim at the University Hospital de la Paix in Port-au-Prince, Haiti
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Secretary Mike Leavitt and Haiti Minster of Health Robert Auguste answer questions at a press conference at the University Hospital de la Paix in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
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Secretary Mike Leavitt and Haiti Minster of Health Robert Auguste answer questions at a press conference at the University Hospital de la Paix in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
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