Mercy crew conducts emergency response training during Pacific Partnership [Image 1 of 12]

USNS MERCY, PACIFIC OCEAN

06.20.2015

Photo by Senior Airman Peter Reft 

Navy Public Affairs Support Element West

Hospital Corpsman 1st Class Iridius Ruise (left), a preventative medicine technician, and Chief Hospital Corpsman Edgar Saavedra, medical repair division leading chief petty officer from San Diego, stabilize Hospitalman Ember Zimmerman, from Salem, Oregon, as part of emergency response training aboard the hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH 19) during Pacific Partnership 2015. Mercy is currently underway to Papua New Guinea for its second mission stop. Medical response teams trained for a man-down scenario involving initial response, diagnosis, transport, and transfer to an operating room. 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. Critical infrastructure development has been supported in host nations during more than 180 engineering projects. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Peter Reft/RELEASED)

• Date Taken: 06.20.2015
• Date Posted: 06.20.2015 06:38
• Photo ID: 2016694
• VIRIN: 150620-F-YW474-005
• Resolution: 4928x3280
• Size: 1.17 MB
• Location: USNS MERCY, PACIFIC OCEAN