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U.S. Navy Capt. Bob Kapcio, hospital ship USNS Comfort mission commander, and Lt. Cmdr Manny Santiago, Comfort's casualty and receiving division officer, visit with a patient during a port visit to Manta, Ecuador, Aug. 17, 2007. Comfort is on a four-month humanitarian deployment to Latin America and the Caribbean providing medical treatment to patients in a dozen countries.

U.S. Navy Capt. Bob Kapcio, hospital ship USNS Comfort mission commander, and Lt. Cmdr Manny Santiago, Comfort's casualty and receiving division officer, visit with a patient during a port visit to Manta, Ecuador, Aug. 17, 2007. Comfort is on a four-month humanitarian deployment to Latin America and the Caribbean providing medical treatment to patients in a dozen countries.

U.S. Navy Capt. Bob Kapcio, hospital ship USNS Comfort mission commander, and Lt. Cmdr Manny Santiago, Comfort's casualty and receiving division officer, visit with a patient during a port visit to Manta, Ecuador, Aug. 17, 2007. Comfort is on a four-month humanitarian deployment to Latin America and the Caribbean providing medical treatment to patients in a dozen countries.

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