USNS COMFORT ARRIVES IN NEW YORK CITY: The Military Sealift Command hospital ship USNS Comfort arrives in New York City in support of the nation’s COVID-19/Wuhan virus response efforts. In 2010 the USNS Comfort deployed to Haiti. Here’s a snapshot of the ship anchored off Paita, Peru (taken in 2011).

RELATED: From 2006, a post discussing the USNS Mercy‘s deployment to Indonesia and the diplomatic pay-off. Here’s a photo of the USNS Mercy and one of its “band-aid boats.” The photo was taken in 2008 in Nha Trang, Vietnam.