Mitch Perry prefers floating operating rooms.
For the next four months, the petty officer third class and Navy corpsman will serve as a surgical technician aboard the hospital ship Comfort.
He is one of about 800 crew members who will deploy Friday on the ship’s first-ever foreign humanitarian mission. The Baltimore-based Comfort, docked in Norfolk since May 31 for final preparations, is expected to provide medical care to an estimated 85,000 patients in 12 nations throughout Central America, South America and the Caribbean.
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