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underpants

(195,814 posts)
Sun Feb 22, 2026, 11:30 AM 13 hrs ago

(X & text) Both US hospital ships, USNS Mercy and USNS Comfort, are currently moored in Mobile, Alabama,

Both US hospital ships, USNS Mercy and USNS Comfort, are currently moored in Mobile, Alabama, undergoing scheduled maintenance. Neither is available for immediate deployment.


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(X & text) Both US hospital ships, USNS Mercy and USNS Comfort, are currently moored in Mobile, Alabama, (Original Post) underpants 13 hrs ago OP
So just another meanhearted vile lie!! lark 12 hrs ago #1
It gets better. underpants 12 hrs ago #2
Yeah, but there's still that hospital ship in the actual, true to life photo Donny posted. tanyev 12 hrs ago #3
Those are pretty old ships. cloudbase 11 hrs ago #4
Trump will announce Trump-class hospital ships that can be deployed while being moored dalton99a 11 hrs ago #5
Tiedrich (no link got it as an email) underpants 11 hrs ago #6

lark

(26,001 posts)
1. So just another meanhearted vile lie!!
Sun Feb 22, 2026, 12:03 PM
12 hrs ago

If he didn't have hate and reich wing money inflating him,, he'd be nothing at all.

underpants

(195,814 posts)
2. It gets better.
Sun Feb 22, 2026, 12:06 PM
12 hrs ago

Danish military evacuates US submariner who needed urgent medical care off Greenland
Associated Press
Sun, February 22, 2026


COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Denmark's military said its arctic command forces evacuated a crew member of a U.S. submarine off the coast of Greenland for urgent medical treatment.

The Danish Joint Arctic Command, on its Facebook page, said the crew member was evacuated on Saturday some 7 nautical miles (8 miles; 13 kilometers) off Nuuk — the capital of the vast, ice-covered territory — and transferred to a hospital in the city. The crew member was retrieved by a Danish Seahawk helicopter that had been deployed on an inspection ship.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/danish-military-evacuates-us-submariner-104712376.html

tanyev

(48,968 posts)
3. Yeah, but there's still that hospital ship in the actual, true to life photo Donny posted.
Sun Feb 22, 2026, 12:19 PM
12 hrs ago

cloudbase

(6,240 posts)
4. Those are pretty old ships.
Sun Feb 22, 2026, 12:47 PM
11 hrs ago

They were originally San Clemente class tankers. I'm pretty sure that there are none of those class still operational in the commercial fleet.

Back in my merchant marine days I sailed aboard two of those, the Overseas Ohio and the Overseas Chicago. There was a slightly smaller class of tanker (Coronado Class) also built, but the engine rooms were the same across both classes.

dalton99a

(93,202 posts)
5. Trump will announce Trump-class hospital ships that can be deployed while being moored
Sun Feb 22, 2026, 12:50 PM
11 hrs ago

They are also invisible


underpants

(195,814 posts)
6. Tiedrich (no link got it as an email)
Sun Feb 22, 2026, 12:55 PM
11 hrs ago

well, here’s a fun fact: everyone is stumped. even the Wall Street Journal is all ‘fuck if we know.’


Late Saturday, Trump posted on social media that he is sending the ship “to take care of the many people who are sick, and not being taken care of there. It’s on the way!!!”

the Journal had one question for the White House: ‘are all these sick Greenlanders in the room with us right now?’

The White House didn’t respond to questions about what specifically prompted the ship’s deployment.

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