Interesting choice of ships: https://voat.co/v/pizzagate/2836430/14868554  https://dod.defense.gov/News/Article/Article/1610333/hospital-ship-to-support-humanitarian-effort-in-latin-america/ The Navy’s Military Sealift Command hospital ship USNS Comfort will deploy to Central America and South America in September to begin a two-month humanitarian mission with stops in Colombia and elsewhere in the region.  Related voat post:  Arson at Guatemala shelter kills 22 girls and a strange tip about a US Navy ship : 6 Degrees of Separation  Domestic worker Alicia Lopez, 50, had been outside the home for hours trying to find out what happened to her autistic 12-year-old son who came to the center with a drug addiction. She said he had been raped there last week. Another strange coincidence. NYT says all the dead in this fire in a children's shelter (in Guatemala) were girls, but that may not be the whole story. USNS Spearhead was sitting off the coast of Guatemala again when it happened. The shelter is inland, but accessible by helicopter. USNS Spearhead works in the area of humanitarian assistance as well as special operations support and does quite a lot of training in the Caribbean. In 2015 according to this article, In Guatemala, they provided prenatal care to more than 400 women and treated children for parasitic infections.  OPERATION CONTINUING PROMISE http://www.southcom.mil/Media/Special-Coverage/Continuing-Promise-2018/  Continuing Promise was a training mission to help strengthen regional partnerships while improving the lives of thousands of people in Honduras and Guatemala. From March – May 2018, U.S. military medical personnel were transported to each nation by USNS Spearhead (T-EPF 1) to work with host nation counterparts and aid workers to provide medical and dental care, preventive medicine, and veterinary consulting. Continuing Promise started with the deployment of USNS Comfort (T-AH 20) in 2007.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Continuing_Promise  The two American hospital ships, USNS Comfort and USNS Mercy as well as other units participate in Continuing Promise to train their crews as well as supplemental personnel from the other branches of service and volunteer civilian organizations.