Mercy crew participates in Pacific Partnership 2015 in Papua New Guinea [Image 17 of 17]

ARAWA, PAPUA NEW GUINEA

06.29.2015

Photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class William McCann 

Navy Public Affairs Support Element West

ARAWA, Autonomous Region of Bougainville, Papua New Guinea (June 29, 2015) Capt. Melanie Merrick, commanding officer of the military treatment facility USNS Mercy (T-AH 19) and Stefan Fedusin of University of Hawaii at Manoa, talk with a local resident at the Arawa Health Clinic during a community health engagement as part of Pacific Partnership 2015. The hospital ship Mercy is in Papua New Guinea for its second 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. Critical infrastructure development has been supported in host nations during more than 180 engineering projects. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class William McCann/Released)

• Date Taken: 06.29.2015
• Date Posted: 06.29.2015 21:53
• Photo ID: 2036547
• VIRIN: 150629-N-HE318-029
• Resolution: 4256x2832
• Size: 1.37 MB
• Location: ARAWA, PG