USNS Comfort Photo Gallery

These photos feature the crew of the USNS Comfort during the mission to Latin America and the Caribbean in 2007.

	La Sierpe, Colombia. (Left to right) CAPT Phil Rapp, Engineer, U.S. Public Health Service (USPHS); a community leader; an interpreter; and CAPT Craig Shepherd, Environmental Health Officer, USPHS discuss, at the rear of the La Sierpe’s elementary school, the school’s water supply catchment and containment system.
	Left to right: CAPT Rapp, USPHS Environmental Engineer; a village leader in La Sierpe, Colombia; and an interpreter look at plans used to install the waste water system. CAPT Rapp provided recommendations to further improve the recently installed system. Framing for the medical clinic can be observed in the background.
	LCDR Gregory Langham, HHS Commissioned Corps veterinarian, in the midst of de-worming eight piglets; three young Peruvian boys observe on the right.
	CDR Abraham Miranda, HHS U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps infectious disease physician, with a patient in Corinto, Nicaragua.
	The second team of HHS U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps Officers next to the USNS Comfort before departing El Salvador for Perú. First row, left to right: CAPT Arthur French, CDR Monica Rueben, CAPT Cynthia Kunkel, LT Misty Rohrer, CAPT Sarath Seneviratne, CDR Kimberly Walker, LT Charles Brucklier, LT James Lyons, CAPT Ana Osorio, CDR Jeffrey Lowell, and LCDR Angela Girgenti. Second row, left to right: CDR Bob Smith, CDR Abraham Miranda, CDR Carlos Rivera, CDR Kevin Prohaska, CDR José Serrano, CAPT Craig Shepherd, CAPT James Sutherland, and LCDR Gregory Langham.
	CAPT Cynthia Kunkel, HHS U.S. Public Health Service Environmental Health Officer, collects a water sample at a house near Costa Brava in El Salvador. (Photo provided by CAPT Kunkel.)
	From left to right: LT Charles Brucklier, HHS U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps dental hygienist, applies a dental sealant to a young girl in Acajutla, El Salvador, while SSGT April Paulson, a dental assistant from the U.S. Air Force, assists. (Photo provided by LT Charles Brucklier, USPHS.)
	LT Charles Brucklier, HHS U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps dental hygienist, places dental sealant on a boy in Delfina Rivas, El Salvador. (Photo provided by LT Charles Brucklier, USPHS.)
	A fourth-year Salvadoran veterinary student administers vaccine, while LCDR Gregory Langham, HHS U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps veterinarian, provides instruction and oversight in the background, near Hacienda Santa Emilia, El Salvador.
	LCDR Gregory Langham, HHS U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps veterinarian, administers vaccine to a young calf, near Hacienda Santa Emilia, El Salvador.
	CDR Bob Smith, HHS Commissioned Corps dentist (green top), and CAPT Joe Rusz, U.S. Navy dentist (blue top), examine patients at Delfinas Rivas Escuela, near Hacienda Santa Emilia, El Salvador.
	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 José 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, and CDR Bob Smith.
	A young patient receives an application of sodium fluoride varnish at the Costa Brava School near Acajutla, El Salvador.
	CDR Monica Rueben applies five-percent sodium fluoride varnish to an adult who is waiting in line to see health care providers at a temporary dental and medical clinic at the Costa Brava School near Acajutla, El Salvador.
	Under shade trees near a clinic in Acajutla, El Salvador, CAPT Cynthia Kunkel provides food-service training to volunteers who work on environmental health issues (latrines, food safety, water quality, etc.) in the surrounding communities. She also provided stem thermometers; the naval officer to her left served as interpreter.
	LCDR Misty Rohrer takes the vital signs of a woman at the medical clinic set up at the Costa Brava School in Acajutla, El Salvador.
	Two veterinarians from the Nicaraguan Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry (left and right) are demonstrating to LCDR Gregory Langham, veterinarian, U.S. Public Health Service (center) a hand-held global-positioning system (GPS) device that they use in epidemiology and surveillance on July 23, 2007.
	A veterinarian from the Nicaraguan Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry (left) and LCDR Gregory Langham, veterinarian, U.S. Public Health Service (center) discuss characteristics of two different medications for deworming cattle; the young woman is serving as an interpreter.
	LCDR Gregory Langham, veterinarian, U.S. Public Health Services (right) and a veterinarian from the Nicaraguan Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry (left) teach a third-year Nicaraguan veterinary student aspects of parasitology and pharmacology. SGT Leona Thomas (in the background) observes.
	Left to right: Eduardo Jose Blanco Delgado, hygiene technician; CAPT Cynthia Kunkel, USPHS; CAPT Anna Marie Osorio, USPHS; Pablo Emilio Mendoza Velasquez, hygiene technician; Maria Magdalena Cardoza, hygiene technician; Dr. Sadia Vargas Chavez, public health physician; and Dr. Omar Antonio Boza Tuckle, epidemiologist/physician. The training session included the following topics: food sanitation; acute pesticide intoxication; blood-borne pathogen and hospital safety; water quality; and vector control issues (especially malaria and dengue).
	A ranch assistant and LCDR Gregory Langham, veterinarian, treat several Brahma cattle for parasites.
	LT Larry Sproul of the U.S. Navy serves as an interpreter between Nicaraguan personnel and LCDR Gregory Langham, veterinarian, as they discuss the best course of treatment for a pregnant cow. The individuals with blue shirts are instructors and representatives from the Nicaraguan Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry.
	Left to right: A fourth-year Nicaraguan veterinary student and LCDR Gregory Langham, veterinarian, USPHS, are about to vaccinate Brahma cattle.
	SGT Leona Thomas, U.S. Army veterinary technician and LCDR Gregory Langham, HHS veterinarian, aspirate a fluid-filled swelling on the leg of a Brahma cow.
	LCDR Gregory Langham, veterinarian, a ranch hand, and Dr. Marcio Reyes, a veterinarian with the Nicaraguan Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry.
	LCDR Gregory Langham, HHS veterinarian, a ranch hand, and Dr. Marcio Reyes, a veterinarian with the Nicaraguan Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry.
	Scene from the USNS Comfort humanitarian mission on June 15, 2007.
	Scene from the USNS Comfort humanitarian mission on June 21, 2007.
	Scene from the USNS Comfort humanitarian mission on June 22, 2007.
	Scene from the USNS Comfort humanitarian mission on June 22, 2007.
	Scene from the USNS Comfort humanitarian mission on June 28, 2007.
	Scene from the USNS Comfort humanitarian mission on June 28, 2007.
	Personnel from the USNS Comfort provide assistance in Guatemala on July 1, 2007.
	SGT Leona Thomas, U.S. Army Veterinary Technician, and LCDR Greg Langham, HHS U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps veterinarian, on a farm near the community of Chinandega, Nicaragua, on July 20, 2007. Along with students and faculty from the Escuela de Medicina Veterinaria of the Universidad de Ciecias Comerciales in Managua, Nicaragua, the team from the USNS Comfort vaccinated and dewormed 253 cattle, 13 horses, 17 pigs, and 25 dogs on a total of four farms.
	CDR Singer receiving provisions in preparation for his deployment to Valley of Peace, Belize.
	Hospitality 1, one of three small boats used to transport personnel from the USNS Comfort to host nations.
	HHS and other U.S. government personnel on their way from the USNS Comfort to an on-shore deployment in Belize.
	A helicopter lifting medical supplies from USNS Comfort to Belize.
	HHS U.S. Public Health Service CDR Chris Brady at the Valley of Peace School in Belize.
	LTJG Amy Dayhoff, HHS U.S. Public Health Service dental hygienist, providing dental care to a young boy in the community of Valley of Peace, Belize, on June 23, 2007.
	LCDR Catherine Rockwell, HHS U.S. Public Health Service veterinarian, treating a dog at Valley of Peace, Belize, on June 23, 2007.
	LCDR Catherine Rockwell, HHS U.S. Public Health Service veterinarian, treating a horse at Valley of Peace, Belize, on June 23, 2007.
	CDR Steve Johnson, HHS U.S. Public Health Service dentist, providing dental care in Valley of Peace, Belize, on June 23, 2007.
	USNS Comfort at dock in Colon, Panamá, July 2007.
	USNS Comfort at dock in Panamá on July 7, 2007.

Last revised: September 05, 2007

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