| | | En route? Not going anywhere? I checked that. When did Trump say that they are en route? I could not find that statement from him. Please provide the quote and source. I did, however, find the following. Are you wrong, or are NPR and Military.com lying?
NPR:
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Defense Department actions
Trump said the hospital ship USNS Comfort would sail from its berth in Norfolk, Va., to dock in New York City in the coming weeks in order to try to add its treatment capacity to the city's hospitals.
The hospital ship USNS Mercy, based in San Diego, also would deploy along the West Coast, the president said, but he said authorities haven't made a determination as to where it might go....
npr.org
Military.com:
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20 Mar 2020
Military.com | By Richard Sisk
With staffing of the Navy's two hospital ships underway Thursday, the USNS Mercy should be ready to leave port In San Diego next week for an as-yet-unnamed site on the West Coast to aid local efforts against the novel coronavirus, Defense Department health officials said.
Doctors, nurses and crew were also summoned to report to the USNS Comfort, based in Norfolk, Virginia, but there was no immediate estimate on when the ship would be deployed to New York harbor, the officials added.
After a six-month deployment to the Caribbean and South America, the Comfort is undergoing maintenance in Norfolk and her departure might be weeks away, Defense Secretary Mark Esper said at a news conference Wednesday.
In a teleconference to the Pentagon, Army Lt. Gen. Ronald Place, director of the Defense Health Agency, and Navy Surgeon General Rear Adm. Bruce Gillingham both stressed that the two hospital ships would not be treating patients with the coronavirus, formally known as COVID-19....
military.com
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USNS Mercy should be underway next week, and USNS is Comfort undergoing maintenance, and will deploy in coming weeks. Given Trump record of lighting fires under peoples asses and getting things done early or on time when others failed, I bet it will be finished early if needed. |
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