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U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Claudia Hunter, a laboratory technician attached to the hospital ship USNS Comfort unloads medical equipment in Manta, Ecuador, Aug. 15, 2007. Comfort is on a four-month humanitarian deployment in Latin America and the Caribbean providing medical treatment in a dozen countries.

USNS COMFORT

U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Claudia Hunter, a laboratory technician attached to the hospital ship USNS Comfort unloads medical equipment in Manta, Ecuador, Aug. 15, 2007. Comfort is on a four-month humanitarian deployment in Latin America and the Caribbean providing medical treatment in a dozen countries.

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