DR1 Daily News - Dominican Republic

USNS Comfort (T-AH 20) is deployed to a Latin American and Caribbean tour from June – August 2025 as part of US Naval Forces Southern Command/US 4th Fleet’s Continuing Promise 2025 mission. Comfort is scheduled to visit Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Ecuador and Panama.

US military medical professionals will work alongside partner nation counterparts to provide direct patient care and technical expertise in community clinics to improve medical readiness and strengthen partnerships.

The Mercy-class hospital ship USNS Comfort (T-AH-20) is departing from Miami, Florida on Wednesday, 4 June for the South and Central America deployment.

The Mercy-class hospital ship had not been on a similar mission since 2022.

Comfort’s deployment marks the 16th Continuing Promise, which began in 2007. It is the eighth time that Comfort...