Even before the U.S. Navy's mash ship, Comfort, anchored off the coast of Haiti on Wednesday, clients who were injured in last week's seismicity were airlifted onto the ship to receive care, the Miami Herald reports (Clark, 1/21). gospel to the Baltimore Sun, "patients were flown in by the Navy, Coast Guard or Air Force in one of the 30 helicopters attainable within the ship's range. Plans for a boat-based shuttle were foiled by an quaker* aftershock that flattened the pier the Comfort had ordered to to use and that jolted the ship as if it had hit ground. Ship powers identified an alternate boat-landing site by midafternoon" (Little, 1/21).

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