Reuters - Thu Sep 1, 2:27 PM ET
The U.S. Navy Hospital Ship Comfort sits moored in Baltimore Harbor
in this January 3, 2003 file photo. The U.S. military on August 31,
2005, added Navy ships, including two helicopter assault vessels
and the hospital ship Comfort, and dozens of helicopters to a
massive relief effort in the wake of killer Hurricane Katrina. The
military's Northern Command said the Comfort, with 12 operating
rooms and 1,000 beds, would soon depart Baltimore for a weeklong
trip to the area, and the helicopter carrier USS Bataan and another
warship were already conducting rescue missions from off the
Louisiana and Mississippi coasts. (Brendan
McDermid/Files/Reuters)
