Field Hospital Donation to Jamaica
Ramp service technicians assigned to the 437th Aerial Port Squadron 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 hospital to Kingston, Jamaica, Sept. 19, where it will be 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 is part of U.S. Southern Command’s ongoing assistance to nations responding to the global pandemic in the Caribbean and Latin America 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)