Table 1.

Summary of US Navy disaster responses since 2000

Date	Disaster	Location	Operation	Ship/Unit	Response Length	Support provided (Surgeries performed)	Notes
2001	9/11	NYC		USNS Comfort	21 days	624 sick call appts; > 1000 massage therapies, > 800 mental health appts [5]
2004	Southeast Asia Tsunami	Indonesia	Operation Unified Assistance	USNS Mercy	81 days	137 patients (26% disaster related) Thousands of onshore procedures. Just under 200 admissions + procedures on ship. Key in delivery of crucial supplies [6]	1st time Mercy deployed on a disaster mission
2005	Hurricane Katrina	New Orleans, LA		USNS Comfort, USS Iwo Jima	42 days	Flight coordination, USS Iwo Jima provided comms/logistical support [4, 7•]	Coordinated with numerous national organizations
2010	Haiti Earthquake (2010)	Haiti	Operation Unified Response	USNS Comfort, USS Carl Vinson, USS Bataan	72 days	USNS Comfort: 900 procedures on 454 patients, 32 surgeries (12 major operations) USS Carl Vinson: treated 60 patients USS Bataan: treated 97 patients, transported 524 patients [4, 7•, 8••]	Overall, more than 30 ships responded, many of which military
2011	Fukushima Nuclear	Fukushima, Japan	Operation Tomodachi	20 US Navy ships	28 days	Deliver 260 tons of HA/DR supplies, clear harbor, radiation containment, search and recover bodies. [4, 9]
2017	Maria	Puerto Rico		USNS Comfort	~ 42 days	170 surgical procedures, 53 emergent. 1589 patients treated in the casualty receiving area after being screened pier-side in San Juan [10]
2020	COVID-19	New York City, NY Los Angeles, CA		USNS Comfort, USNS Mercy	~ 35 days	> 110 operations and procedures. (54% on COVID positive patients) [11, 12]	Responded in < 7 days. No OR personnel tested positive at the conclusion
2021	Haiti Earthquake (2021)	Haiti		Multiple US Navy ships		Provided command and control, supported fueling for flight operations, deployed unmanned aerial systems, aided in food/resource distribution [13]