Military Sealift Command hospital ship USNS Comfort (T-AH 20) is scheduled to arrive in Norfolk, Va., Sept. 2, after completing a five-month humanitarian assistance deployment to nine countries in the Caribbean Basin and Central and South America.

Comfort is completing Continuing Promise 2011 (CP11), a five-month humanitarian and civic assistance deployment to the U.S. Southern Command Area of Responsibility. Throughout the deployment Comfort’s crew provided medical, dental, veterinary care and engineering support to the host nation populations while working closely with a variety of partner nations, governmental and non-governmental agencies training in civil-military operations. Comfort visited Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Jamaica, Nicaragua and Peru, treating more than 70,000 people.