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First Lady Urges Support for Military Families
First Lady Michelle Obama met with military families at Naval Station Norfolk, Va., at the homecoming celebration for the USNS Comfort and the USS Eisenhower Carrier Group. She thanked them for their service during their recent deployment.
The First Lady called military families “quiet heroes”. She said military families represent the best in our nation, who serve the nation in their own way when their loved ones are deployed.... Read more here
Medical Mission Sets Tone in Relations w/Latin America
The USNS Comfort will pull back into its home port of Baltimore soon after finishing up Continuing Promise 2009, a four-month humanitarian trip to seven Latin American countries.
During the mission, the Comfort’s physicians, dentists, nurses, optometrists and staff served more than 100,000 patients. Its surgeons conducted more than 1,600 operations aboard the floating surgical ward. More than 135,000 prescriptions were filled.
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