SUVA, Fiji (June 9, 2015) Meretui Ratuanabuabua (left), director of the Fiji National Museum thanks American and Canadian volunteers for their work at the museum during Pacific Partnership 2015. Service members from the hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH 19) volunteered to help construct shelving units for artifacts and clear areas that were cluttered during the community service project. Mercy is currently in Suva, Fiji for its first mission port of PP15. Pacific Partnership is in its tenth 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 services to more than 38,000 animals. Additionally, the mission has provided critical infrastructure development to host nations through more than 180 engineering project. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Araceli Alarcon /RELEASED)
Date Taken: | 06.09.2015 |
Date Posted: | 06.09.2015 19:30 |
Photo ID: | 1987767 |
VIRIN: | 150609-F-SD522-227 |
Resolution: | 4928x3280 |
Size: | 2 MB |
Location: | SUVA, FJ |
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