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U.S. Naval Hospital Ship Comfort deploys for Continuing Promise 2025 mission
NORFOLK, Va. (WAVY) — The USNS Comfort set sail from Naval Station Norfolk Friday morning on a three-month deployment as part of the Continuing Promise 2025 mission. The naval hospital ship is equipped with an initial 100 bed capacity that is scalable to 1000 beds if needed. It includes advanced medical facilities from x-ray and CAT scan units to dental and optometry suites and a blood bank. 'We have a full complement of medical services, both medical and surgical, as well as support services to cool to include laboratory, radiology, pharmacy and physical therapy,' said Capt. Stephan Arles, commanding officer of the USNS Comfort medical treatment facility. 'We have a tailored mission, with two operating rooms capable of completing 12 to 18 surgeries per day. we also have an expeditionary medical site off ship, capable of treating between 300 and 500 patients a day.' Continuing Promise 2025 includes mission stops in Grenada, Panama, Columbia, Ecuador, Costa Rica, and the Dominican Republic. 'Really excited to go down to the Caribbean and Central and South America in order to help some people down there,' said Capt. Ryan Kendall. 'We are working towards expanding our cooperation and integration with, with our regional partners in order to provide assistance in times of humanitarian crisis, disaster or regional conflict,' Arles said. As the ship departed from Naval Station Norfolk, family members of sailors gathered along the pier, giving their loved ones a proper send off as they deployed. 'So, it's his first big, long deployment, since having kids,' said Lindsay Moore, the wife of a sailor on the USNS Comfort. 'We met while I was getting out of the military, so I'm used to the deployment part, but it's definitely been interesting with them two [the kids].' 'It's bittersweet, but I feel inspired because I know he's out there doing good things and helping people that need that need attention,' said Lincoln Sama, the son of a sailor on the USNS Comfort. The Comfort is now headed to Miami, where it will later depart for Grenada, the first stop on the three-month mission. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
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17-05-2025
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WAVY Navy Ship Salute — USS Nitze
NORFOLK, Va. (WAVY) — It is time once again for WAVY's Navy Ship Salute. This month, we are featuring the USS Nitze, a guided missile destroyer at Naval Station Norfolk. 10 On Your Side's Nick Broadway introduces everyone to the commanding officer, shows us the ship's new upgrades and plays the role of a hostage. The USS Nitze is fresh out of the yard with lots of upgrades for the crew, sending them into the next generation of Navy technology. Well over 200 crew members greeted us on board with extreme energy. Commanding Officer Joshua Tiley said the upgraded missile defense systems will do a lot for his team. 'The taxpayers report $200 million into into this magnificent warship back there,' Tiley said, 'and it's upgraded us across the board, whole mechanical, electrical systems, combat systems. And we got upgraded to the latest baseline, which will allow us to do pretty much any mission across the board.' Much of what it can do runs out of the Combat Information Center — deep into what they call the 'brain' of the ship. 'In here we conduct tactical operations,' said Lt. Christopher Chavez of the USS Nitze. 'We're able to collect, disseminate and analyze information in support of offensive and defensive operations. It recently just received the latest baseline nine upgrade to our combat system, which allows us to conduct enhanced anti-air warfare and ballistic missile defense.' Training is key. Constant drills keep the crew ready for whatever comes their way. This includes potential hostage situations on board. Today, they showed us an exercise in which I was the hostage. 'The exercise like this, we usually try to run a couple of week just so the crew can be ready,' said Lt. Sean Ellington, 'and we can provide a crew to the commanding officer that's able to detect, deter and ultimately eliminate any threats that we may face.' Their training was effective, moving real quick to rescue me from a man in a Hawaiian Texas shirt, threatening me with a knife for not putting his dog on the news. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
