It contains up-to-date medical facilities, and has already deployed to areas such as the Caribbean and Africa, where it conducted humanitarian assistance missions. 6 The benefits of employing such a vessel in conjunction with two United States Military Sealift Command hospital ships, the USNS Mercy (T-AH-19) and USNS Comfort (T-AH-20), become apparent in the light of disasters such as the 2004 tsu