USNS ''Cody'' (T-EPF-14) will be the fourteenth and will be operated by the

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. It will be the first ship in naval service named after

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, and the first of the Flight II variant designed to have enhanced medical capabilities. Beginning with EPF 14, the EPF Flight II configuration enhances current EPF capabilities by including health services (a combined forward resuscitative care capability with a limited Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and medical ward) to the ship while maintaining most of the original mission requirements of the ship. The medical mission is not the primary mission. The Flight II health services capability improvements support Role 2 enhanced medical care (E MTF) as defined by the Joint Publication 4-02 for Joint Health Services. Flight II EPFs will be able to provide operating rooms and complimenting ICU and ward space to stabilize postsurgical cases for evacuation without the requirement to first route them through a higher facility. ''Cody'' is under construction in

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