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[[File:The Hopeful.png | [[File:The Hopeful.png|thumb|300px|The ''Hopeful'' was a primary UNSC medical installation.]] | ||
'''Hospital ships''' are | '''Hospital ships''' are a type of medical spacecraft and [[support ship]] employed by the [[UNSC]] and [[Covenant]] in wartime to transport and aid wounded personnel. | ||
==UNSC== | ==UNSC== | ||
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==Covenant== | ==Covenant== | ||
The Covenant also made use of hospital ships, which are used to provide medical support to the [[Covenant fleet|fleet]]'s entire complement of personnel. | The Covenant also made use of hospital ships, which are used to provide medical support to the [[Covenant fleet|fleet]]'s entire complement of personnel.{{Ref/Twitter|TDenningauthor|1137870430277165061|Troy Denning|Quote=They provide medical support for the fleet's entire complement. Treating combat wounds is probably a fairly small part of that. Without adequate medical care, the largest source of casualties in an army in the field is usually disease.|D=19|M=3|Y=2021}} Such vessels were employed in the [[Fleet of Inexorable Obedience]], as part of the fleet's logistics and supply train. After several days of observing the Covenant's logistics fleet at [[Etalan]], [[John-117]] still found it difficult to distinguish the Covenant's hospital ships from their munitions carriers and equipment freighters.{{Ref/Novel|HSS|Chapter=19}} | ||
==Sources== | ==Sources== | ||
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{{Ship types}} | {{Ship types}} | ||
[[Category:Ship classifications]] | [[Category:Ship classifications]] | ||