The troops stationed at Joint Activity Power-Guantanamo acquired some distinguished guests as Gen. Laura Richardson, commander of U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM), and members of the SOUTHCOM command group, joined the troops to have fun the Thanksgiving vacation.
Coinciding with Richardson’s go to was the arrival of the USNS Consolation hospital ship, which is in the course of a 7-week deployment as a part of Persevering with Promise ’22, a humanitarian mission offering medical and veterinary care to populations in choose Latin American and the Caribbean international locations.
The hospital ship most lately accomplished a week-long mission in Cartagena, Colombia, the place groups supplied medical help to over 5000 individuals, carried out roughly 80 surgical procedures, and affected the lives to greater than 25,000 residents with extra actions and packages.
Richardson, together with U.S. 4th Fleet commander RADM Jim Aiken, JTF- Guantanamo commander BG Scott Hiipakka, and members of the SOUTHCOM group, served Thanksgiving meals to servicemembers and their households in addition to to sailors, troops, and volunteers assigned to the USNS Consolation.
“I needed to thank every certainly one of you for all that you just do,” Richardson stated, talking briefly to these in attendance on the galley previous to having fun with her personal meal. “You guys [with the Comfort] are bringing a face and a reputation to a humanitarian mission of what the US is about. And we do it as a result of individuals in the US care about everyone else.”
On the conclusion of the festivities, Richardson returned to Miami along with her group whereas the Consolation set sail for her subsequent cease within the Dominican Republic.
