Burlington is an environment friendly, light-weight and versatile asset that is ready to assist Troopers, Sailors, and Marines within the U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) space of duty. The ship has the aptitude to move a battalion-sized ingredient, as much as 1,000 personnel, or 600 tons of cargo at excessive speeds.
The Burlington can be in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago for eight days. In the course of the ship’s time in port, the Persevering with Promise 2023 crew will work alongside Trinidad and Tobago’s medical consultants and first care suppliers to conduct medical engagements, reconstruction tasks, humanitarian help and catastrophe response (HADR) coaching, Ladies, Peace, and Safety (WPS) symposiums, subject material skilled exchanges, and host a number of stay performances by the U.S. Fleet Forces Band.
“The Persevering with Promise 2023 mission permits us to be taught from accomplice nations and collaborate in potential contingency operations,” stated Grasp Chief Hospital Corpsman Ebenezer Atekwana, Senior Enlisted Chief for Persevering with Promise 2023. “We’re thrilled to crew up with medical consultants from Trinidad and Tobago to reinforce our partnership. Our time here’s a useful alternative for mutual studying and bettering the interoperability of our medical groups.”
This U.S. Navy’s Persevering with Promise deployment has taken place nearly yearly within the final 17 years to help or support folks within the area. Since 2007, Persevering with Promise medical personnel have handled greater than 595,000 folks, to incorporate roughly 7,300 surgical procedures. When mixed with all of the veterinary providers, subject material skilled exchanges, engineering tasks, group relations occasions, and band performances, Persevering with Promise has positively impacted extra folks in our accomplice nations than every other deployment sequence within the U.S. Navy’s historical past. All through the mission cease in Almirante, Panama, the Persevering with Promise 2023 crew and Panamanian healthcare suppliers had been in a position to administer care to over 2,700 sufferers, subject over 850 vaccines, and distribute greater than 7,000 prescriptions.
The Persevering with Promise mission goals to foster goodwill, strengthen current partnerships with accomplice nations, and encourage the institution of latest partnerships amongst nations, non-government organizations, and worldwide organizations.
U.S. Naval Forces Southern Command/U.S. 4th Fleet helps U.S. Southern Command’s joint and mixed navy operations by using maritime forces in cooperative maritime safety operations to keep up entry, improve interoperability, and construct enduring partnerships to be able to improve regional safety and promote peace, stability and prosperity within the Caribbean, Central and South American area.
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