Mercy on another mission of Mercy

We are up to our eyeballs in debt, fighting a war.. Hey Lets go rebuild some other 3rd world country with the money we “DON’T” have, all the while Gas is about to go to 4.00 a gallon, and Food is going through the roof.

Btw Did you all know you were put on “WELFARE” this month? When you get your Tax check it is supposed to go to Food and Gas prices.. Wow. so gracious of them..

I’ll be quiet now..

Nope I won’t. Look I think we need missions like this, but darn it we can’t afford to fix barracks for the Army, our ships can’t even fire weapons due to safety problems, but hey lets go help build a school!!

Now I am done.. D/C

Mercy to deploy for humanitarian mission

By Gidget Fuentes – Staff writer
Posted : Thursday May 1, 2008 6:18:20 EDT

SAN DIEGO — The hospital ship Mercy, carrying about 700 Navy personnel, will leave its homeport here Thursday morning for a humanitarian mission in the South Pacific and Southeast Asia, Navy officials said.

The deployment is the second goodwill mission for Mercy since its short-notice orders in January 2005 to assist in the aftermath of devastating tsunamis that struck Indonesia and South Asia.

Mercy will operate as part of the U.S. Pacific Fleet’s “Pacific Partnership 2008” mission and provide humanitarian civic assistance alongside non-governmental organizations specializing in medical, dental and construction. Navy medical teams and Navy Seabees, from the service’s construction battalions, are among the sailors who will participate in the missions during the deployment.

“They will get a lot of people throughout the deployment, on and off,” said Navy Lt. Sarah Self-Kyler, a U.S. 3rd Fleet spokeswoman in San Diego.

These include medical teams from the naval hospitals in Oak Harbor and Bremerton, Wash., and Seabees with Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 133 from Gulfport, Miss., according to the Pacific Fleet.

Mercy, a Military Sealift Command ship, is slated to provide assistance in the Philippines, Vietnam, Micronesia, Papua New Guinea and Timor-Leste.

Leading the mission is Capt. W.A. Kearns III, who commands Destroyer Squadron 31. Navy Capt. James P. Rice will command the Military Treatment Facility aboard Mercy, which is skippered by a civilian master, Capt. Robert T. Wiley.

Article From: http://www.navytimes.com/news/2008/04/navy_mercydeploys_043008/