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Tanuki

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8. Indeed....

Reply to Baitball Blogger (Reply #5)

Sat Feb 21, 2026, 11:17 PM

Feb 21

https://gcaptain.com/trump-announces-greenland-hospital-ship-mission-as-mercy-and-comfort-sit-in-alabama-shipyard/

...."The USNS Mercy and USNS Comfort are the U.S. Navy’s only two hospital ships, each measuring 894 feet in length with a displacement of 69,552 tons. The vessels can accommodate up to 1,200 military personnel in addition to 71 civilian mariners, and are designed to provide mobile, acute surgical medical facilities for U.S. military operations and disaster relief missions worldwide. The USNS Mercy’s home port is Naval Base San Diego, California."

(Both of the ships are currently drydocked in Mobile, AL, per the linked article)

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Trump to send hospital boat to Greenland. Maybe he should send it to Louisianna [View all] applegrove Feb 21 OP

Ominous development- is it for the survivors? Blues Heron Feb 21 #1

WTF is he talking about? 2naSalit Feb 21 #2

He's sending a hospital ship to Greenland to help the people applegrove Feb 21 #4

Did Denmark or Greenland ask for help? pfitz59 Feb 21 #6

I know. It is crazy. They didn't ask but a US submariner applegrove Feb 21 #9

Is it needed... 2naSalit Feb 21 #11

Sounds like Trump got inspired on his own. applegrove Feb 21 #12

So he just up and decided... 2naSalit Feb 21 #14

Looks like it. Typically public healthcare in remote applegrove Feb 21 #15

Yeah... 2naSalit Feb 21 #16

The US submariner was flown to Nuuk. That is how applegrove Feb 21 #17

I hope Greenlanders are familiar with the story of The Trojan Horse. Intractable Feb 21 #3

I was just skimming through the posts to see if anyone had made that connection . . . n/t Ms. Toad Feb 21 #10

Beware Greenland. Sounds like a Trojan Horse. Baitball Blogger Feb 21 #5

Indeed.... Tanuki Feb 21 #8

Is this a scam to fool the fools who follow him? ananda Feb 21 #7

Syphilis brain is explosive, grandeous, and vengeful. Also, memory is long gone Bread and Circuses Feb 21 #13

"It's on the way!" choie Feb 21 #18

Who knows...with chump in charge, it might end up in Iceland. n/t Totally Tunsie Feb 22 #19

Both of the US Navy hospital ships are currently in dry dock in Alabama Arazi Feb 22 #20

Of course, only the announcement was important. thought crime Feb 22 #22

Reuters had the story. CNN has it. applegrove Feb 22 #23

Is this the guy who cut USAID, which will probably result in many deaths? thought crime Feb 22 #21

Greenland says 'no thanks' to Trump US hospital boat LetMyPeopleVote Feb 22 #24

Right? Scott Alan Swaggerty Wednesday #25

Wellllllll. . .BOTH the Mercy and the Comfort are in drydock, so that niyad Wednesday #26

Didn't he say this last week and scotched the plan when the mwmisses4289 Wednesday #27

Kinda difficult when they are both in drydock in Mobile. Ferrets are Cool Wednesday #28

Because, EPSTEIN. B.See Wednesday #29

MaddowBlog-Trump reportedly isn't sending a hospital ship to Greenland after all LetMyPeopleVote Wednesday #30