USNS COMFORT IN PERU A Peruvian Bell 412 flies alongside the U.S. Navy Hospital Ship USNS Comfort. The USNS Comfort was in Peru on a five-day medical mission, where medical staff treated more than 4,500 patients and performed over 100 surgeries aboard the ship. (Photo: U.S. Navy Mass Communication Specialist Second Class Morgan K. Nall) U.S. Navy Hospital Corpsman Second Class Ajai Rios, from Los Angeles, assigned to USNS Comfort, checks a patient into a temporary medical treatment site. (Photo: U.S. Navy Mass Communication Specialist Second Class Julio Martinez Martinez) U.S. Navy Lieutenant Andrew Ellis, a physician assistant assigned to USNS Comfort, provides medical services to a patient at a temporary medical site. (Photo: U.S. Navy Mass Communication Specialist Third Class Danny Ray Nuñez Jr.) U.S. Navy Lieutenant Jack Davis, a dentist assigned to USNS Comfort, conducts a dental exam on a child at a temporary medical treatment site. (Photo: U.S. Navy Mass Communication Specialist Second Class Julio Martinez Martinez) U.S. Navy Commander Edwin Landaker, a doctor assigned to USNS Comfort, examines a patient’s injury at a temporary medical treatment site. (Photo: U.S. Navy Mass Communication Specialist Second Class Julio Martinez Martinez) U.S. Army Captain Walter Hinman, a dentist assigned to USNS Comfort, conducts a dental exam while Peruvian Navy officers observe during a subject matter expert exchange at a temporary medical treatment site. (Photo: U.S. Navy Mass Communication Specialist Second Class Julio Martinez Martinez) Share on Social Media 00000