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USNS Comfort Heading to Colombia to Treat Venezuelan Refugees

7 May 2019

USNS Comfort (T-AH-20) is anchored off the coast of Honduras as part of an 11-week medical support mission to Central and South America as part of U.S. Southern Command’s Enduring Promise initiative on Dec. 6, 2018. US Navy Photo

Navy hospital ship USNS Comfort (T-AH 20) is excepted in June to start a five-month Caribbean deployment to provide humanitarian and medical assistance to the region, notable to refugees flooding into Colombia from neighboring Venezuela.

Comfort’s departure will mark the...

https://news.usni.org/2019/05/07/usns-comfort-heading-to-colombia-to-treat-venezuelan-refugees

Littoral Combat Ships Headed to SOUTHCOM for Drug Interdiction Patrols This Year

7 February 2019

USS Wichita (LCS-13) conducts acceptance trials on Lake Michigan on July 11, 2018. Lockheed Martin Photo

A Littoral Combat Ship, with an embarked Coast Guard law enforcement detachment, will hunt for drug runners in U.S. Southern Command later this year, the command’s top officer told the Senate Armed Services Committee on Thursday.

Adm. Craig Faller said the LCS deployment was top of his list of wants for his command followed by more intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance assets, a...

https://news.usni.org/2019/02/07/littoral-combat-ships-headed-southcom-drug-interdiction-patrols-year

Navy Tests ‘Littoral Combat Group’ Concept That Pairs DDG, LPD in South America Deployment

4 January 2019

Sailors man the rails aboard the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Wayne E. Meyer (DDG 108) as the ship is underway off the coast of Valparaiso, Chile during a parade of ships, Dec. 2, 2018. Wayne E. Meyer is part of Littoral Combat Group One, which is deployed in support of the Enduring Promise Initiative to reaffirm U.S. Southern Command’s long standing commitment to the nations of the Western Hemisphere. US Navy photo.

The Navy deployed a new ship pairing – a destroyer (DDG-51)...

https://news.usni.org/2019/01/03/navy-tests-littoral-combat-group-concept-that-pairs-ddg-lpd-in-south-america-deployment

John Kelly, Retired Marine 4-Star, Will Step Down as White House Chief of Staff

8 December 2018

Marine Corps Gen. John F. Kelly, center, commander of U.S. Southern Command, speaks with Adm. Sigifrido Pared Perez, Dominican Republic minister of defense, in Barahona, Dominican Republic on June 9, 2014. SOUTHCOM Photo

Retired Marine Corps Gen. John Kelly will step down as President Donald Trump’s chief of staff at the end of the year, after more than a year spent managing the daily operations inside the West Wing, Trump told reporters today.

Kelly, 68, spent most of his entire adult life...

https://news.usni.org/2018/12/08/marine-corps-gen-john-f-kelly-ret-leaves-west-wing

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