USNS Mercy hospital

[Hindustani78]

16 May, 2015
The hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH 19) prepares to depart from Naval Base San Diego on a four month Pacific Partnership humanitarian deployment to the South Pacific. The ship has a 1,000 patient bed capacity, four X-ray rooms a CT scan unit as well as a optometry and lens laboratory.

Naval personnel walk past the hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH 19) prior to its departure from Naval Base San Diego on a four month Pacific Partnership humanitarian deployment to the South Pacific

Equipment is loaded onboard the hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH 19) prior to its departure from Naval Base San Diego on a four month Pacific Partnership humanitarian deployment to the South Pacific.

One of 8 operating rooms is shown onboard the hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH 19) prior to its departure from Naval Base San Diego on a four month Pacific Partnership humanitarian deployment to the South Pacific.

Training equipment is loaded onto the hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH 19) prior to its departure from Naval Base San Diego on a four month Pacific Partnership humanitarian deployment to the South Pacific.

 

[Hindustani78]

Portable X-ray machines made by GE Healthcare are shown onboard the hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH 19) prior to its departure from Naval Base San Diego on a four month Pacific Partnership humanitarian deployment to the South Pacific.

Quarantine beds are shown onboard the hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH 19) prior to its departure from Naval Base San Diego on a four month Pacific Partnership humanitarian deployment to the South Pacific.

Oxygen bottles wait to be loaded onto the hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH 19) prior to its departure from Naval Base San Diego on a four month Pacific Partnership humanitarian deployment to the South Pacific.

Mission commander Capt. Christopher M. Engdahl (L), Ship Capt. Thomas J. Giudice (C) and ship commanding officer Capt. Melanie J. Merrick gather on the helm of the hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH 19) prior to its departure from Naval Base San Diego on a four month Pacific Partnership humanitarian deployment to the South Pacific.

 

[truthseeker2010]

^^^ can somebody highlight the difference in their roles, like three captains on a ship, all in a role of a commanding officer, whats the difference?

 

[Hindustani78]

^^^ can somebody highlight the difference in their roles, like three captains on a ship, all in a role of a commanding officer, whats the difference?

Mission commander Capt. -
Ship Capt. -
ship commanding officer

 

[jhungary]

^^^ can somebody highlight the difference in their roles, like three captains on a ship, all in a role of a commanding officer, whats the difference?

Captain (O-6) is a rank in the United States Navy and PHS, in the US Navy, you have your rank to go along with your rating.

The Ship's Captain is a Rating (or Billing) that filled the ship, it could be filled by a Navy Captain, but it could sometime filled by a Promotable Commander (O-5)

In term of the Billet. Ship's Captain runs the daily running of the ship He or She most likely an unlimited line officer, Mission Commander in charge of operational issue while the Ship's (Company) Commanding Officer in charge of the crew, most likely Head Surgeon in USNS Mercy case

 

[Hindustani78]

SAN DIEGO (May 17, 2015) Families watch from the pier as the Military Sealift Command hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH 19) departs Naval Base San Diego in support of Pacific Partnership 2015. Pacific Partnership is in its tenth iteration and is the largest annual multilateral humanitarian assistance and disaster relief preparedness mission conducted in the Indio-Asia-Pacific region. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Gerald Dudley Reynolds/Released)