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USNS ''Comfort'' (T-AH-20) is the third United States Navy ship to bear the name ''Comfort'', and the second to join the U.S. Navy's fleet. The USNS prefix identifies the ''Comfort'' as a non-commissioned ship owned by the U.S. Navy and operationally crewed by civilians from the Military Sealift Command (MSC). A uniformed naval hospital staff and naval support staff is embarked when ''Comfort'' is deployed, said staffs consisting primarily of naval officers from the Navy's Medical Corps, Dental Corps, Medical Service Corps, Nurse Corps and Chaplain Corps, and naval enlisted personnel from the Hospitalman rating and various administrative and technical support ratings (e.g., Yeoman, Personnel Specialist, Information Systems Technician, Religious Program Specialist, etc.). In keeping with her status as a non-combatant vessel, naval personnel from the "combat" specialties are not assigned as regular crew or staff. Underway embarks by Navy Unrestricted Line officers (e.g., warfare qualified combat specialties), enlisted Naval Aviation, Surface Warfare, Submarine Warfare, Special Operations or Special Warfare/SEAL personnel, or any Marine Corps officers or enlisted personnel, are typically limited to official visits, helicopter or tilt-rotor flight operations or as patients. In accordance with the Geneva Conventions, USNS ''Comfort'' and her crew do not carry any offensive weapons. Firing upon ''Comfort'' would be considered a war crime as the ship only carries weapons for self-defense.〔Diplomatic Conference of Geneva of 1949 (【引用サイトリンク】title=Chapter III: Hospital ships, Article 35 - Conditions not Depriving Hospital Ships of Protection )〕 Like her sister ship , ''Comfort'' was built as a ''San Clemente''-class oil tanker in 1976 by the National Steel and Shipbuilding Company. Her original name was SS ''Rose City'' and she was launched from San Diego, California. Her career as an oil tanker ended when she was delivered to the U.S. Navy on December 1, 1987. As a hospital ship, ''Comfort'''s duties include providing emergency, on-site care for U.S. combatant forces deployed in war or other operations. Operated by the Military Sealift Command, ''Comfort'' provides rapid, flexible, and mobile medical and surgical services to support Marine Corps Air/Ground Task Forces deployed ashore, Army and Air Force units deployed ashore, and naval amphibious task forces and battle forces afloat. Secondarily, she provides mobile surgical hospital service for use by appropriate U.S. government agencies in disaster or humanitarian relief or limited humanitarian care incident to these missions or peacetime military operations. ''Comfort'' is more advanced than a field hospital but less capable than a traditional hospital on land. After a quarter-century in Baltimore, Maryland, USNS ''Comfort'' changed her homeport to Naval Station Norfolk in Norfolk, Virginia in March 2013. The move placed the ship closer to supplies, much of which come from Naval Medical Center Portsmouth, and to medical crew. Savings to the U.S. Navy are estimated at $2 million per year.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Home )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=USNS Comfort’s Move From Baltimore To Norfolk To Save Navy Time & Money « CBS Baltimore )〕 ==General characteristics== *Patient Capacity: * *Intensive care wards: 80 beds * *Recovery wards: 20 beds * *Intermediate care wards: 280 beds * *Light care wards: 120 beds * *Limited care wards: 500 beds * *Total Patient Capacity: 1000 beds * *Operating Rooms: 12 *Departments and Facilities: * *Casualty reception * *Intensive care unit * *Radiological services * *Main laboratory plus satellite lab * *Central sterile receiving * *Medical supply/pharmacy * *Physical therapy and burn care * *Dental services * *Optometry/lens lab * *Morgue * *Laundry * *Oxygen producing plants (two) * *Medical Photography * *Four distilling plants to make drinking water from sea water ( per day) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「USNS Comfort (T-AH-20)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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