Persevering with Promise 2024 marks the 14th mission to the area since 2007 and the second aboard USNS Burlington. The mission will foster goodwill, strengthen present partnerships with associate nations, and encourage the institution of recent partnerships amongst nations, non-government organizations, and worldwide organizations.
The main focus throughout every mission cease will probably be working alongside associate nation medical personnel to supply direct affected person care and technical experience in group clinics to enhance medical readiness, strengthen partnerships, and improve the mixed capabilities of the U.S. Navy and associate nations to reply to public well being disasters and humanitarian crises. 30 U.S. Navy medical professionals, together with normal practitioners, nurses, pharmacists, radiologists, dentists, optometrists, and biomedical technicians from Navy Medication Readiness and Coaching Command (NMRTC Portsmouth, NMRTC Jacksonville, NMRTC Nice Lakes, NMRTC Pensacola, NMRTC Camp Lejeune) and Naval Medication Readiness and Logistics Command carry their experience to this 12 months’s iteration of Persevering with Promise.
“Throughout Persevering with Promise 2024, we’re working side-by-side and step-by-step with our companions,” mentioned Rear Adm. Jim Aiken, U.S. Naval Forces Southern Command/U.S. 4th Fleet Commander. “Our funding into the area is our enduring relationships, and we’re dedicated to making sure improved interoperability and collaborative regional safety collectively. We acquire a lot by this chance to serve alongside true professionals.”
The Persevering with Promise staff features a U.S. Army veterinary staff from the 248th Medical Detachment (Veterinary Service Help), which can collaborate with host nation colleagues to supply direct public well being schooling and animal care at native veterinary organizations in-country. U.S. Navy Seabees from Navy Cell Building Battalion 1 will help in host nation led group engineering initiatives. U.S. Navy consultants will host seminars and coaching workouts with host nation civilian officers and navy professionals protecting catastrophe preparedness and response. These exchanges goal to assist host nation services, enhance readiness, and empower native and nationwide officers with the data and expertise to behave with confidence throughout emergencies.
“Actions actually communicate louder than phrases and Persevering with Promise 2024 will definitely display that,” mentioned U.S. Navy Capt. Scott Maloney, Persevering with Promise 2024 mission commander. “It’s a manner for us to collaborate and work alongside our companions within the Caribbean, Central and South America and make a constructive influence in native communities at every cease.”
Persevering with Promise can even proceed its in style sequence of seminars on the prevention of gender-based violence in assist of the mission’s Ladies, Peace, and Safety (WPS) initiative.
WPS is a United Nations (UN) initiative that began with UNSCR 1325 signed in 2000. The UN decision is a public acknowledgement that ladies are extra adversely impacted by battle and disaster, and together with ladies in safety planning will result in a extra peaceable world.
Persevering with Promise will characteristic the U.S. Fleet Forces Band, “Uncharted Waters”. The band will embark on USNS Burlington to conduct courses at group colleges, collaborate with navy and civilian musical organizations in associate nations, and entertain native communities with concert events at every mission cease. This cultural alternate goals to strengthen group ties and foster goodwill.
USNS Burlington is an expeditionary quick transport (EPF) operated by Army Sealift Command and crewed by 26 Civil Service Mariners led by Ship Grasp, Capt. Tyler Driscoll. The crew composition follows a business mannequin of bridge and engineering watches. The ship is a shallow draft, all aluminum, commercial-based catamaran able to regional transport of personnel and cargo raise, offering combatant commanders high-speed sealift mobility with inherent cargo dealing with functionality and agility to realize positional benefit over operational distances. Burlington will carry the personnel, gear and provides essential to conduct the Persevering with Promise mission, in addition to act because the mission’s logistics and command hub.
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