Keywords: Pacific Partnership mission commander visits with Bougainville leaders 150702-N-BK290-454.jpg en ARAWA Autonomous Region of Bougainville Papua New Guinea July 2 2015 Capt Chris Engdahl Pacific Partnership 2015 mission commander gives a speech to police officers at the Arawa police station Engdahl spoke about the importance of leadership and took questions from police officers during his visit The hospital ship USNS Mercy T-AH 19 is currently at its second mission port of Papua New Guinea as part of Pacific Partnership 2015 Pacific Partnership is in its 10th iteration and is the largest annual multilateral humanitarian assistance and disaster relief preparedness mission conducted in the Indo-Asia-Pacific region While training for crisis conditions Pacific Partnership missions to date have provided real world medical care to approximately 270 000 patients and veterinary service to more than 38 000 animals Critical infrastructure development has been supported in host nations during more than 180 engineering projects U S Navy photo by Chief Mass Communication Specialist Christopher E Tucker/RELEASED 2015-07-02 Chief Petty Officer Christopher Tucker https //www dvidshub net/image/2044217 150702-N-BK290-454 2015-07-04 08 37 ARAWA PG PD-USGov-Military-Navy USNS Mercy T-AH-19 Pacific Partnership 2015 Images from DoD uploaded by Fæ |