Ramp service technicians, assigned to the 437th Aerial Port Squadron, on-load a mobile field hospital onto a C-17 Globemaster III at Joint Base Charleston, S.C., Sept. 19, 2020. Aircrew, assigned to the 15th Airlift Squadron, transported the large mobile field hospital to Kingston, Jamaica, Sept. 19, where it will be donated to health care providers and used to support the Caribbean nation’s ongoing response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The donation, made on behalf of the American people, cost $753,000 and was purchased as a part of U.S. Southern Command’s ongoing assistance to nations responding to the global pandemic in the Caribbean and Latin America and funded by the command’s Humanitarian Assistance Program, HAP. The command has also delivered mobile field hospitals to Costa Rica and the Dominican Republic and, in total, will donate 24 field hospitals to 11 countries. (Photo by Staff Sergeant Lance Valencia)
Date Taken: | 09.19.2020 |
Date Posted: | 09.22.2020 11:49 |
Photo ID: | 6357790 |
VIRIN: | 200919-F-NR350-1209 |
Resolution: | 7049x5035 |
Size: | 2.54 MB |
Location: | KINGSTON, JM |
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