Pacific Fleet Band plays a concert in Arawa during Pacific Partnership [Image 3 of 5]

ARAWA, PAPUA NEW GUINEA

06.30.2015

Photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class William McCann 

Navy Public Affairs Support Element West

ARAWA, Autonomous Region of Bougainville, Papua New Guinea (June 30, 2015) Musician 2nd Class Christian Ivy, from Fort Worth, Texas, with the Pacific Fleet Band, plays the tuba at a community outreach project during Pacific Partnership 2015. The hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH 19) is in Papua New Guinea for its second mission port of PP15. 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 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: 06.30.2015
• Date Posted: 07.01.2015 07:08
• Photo ID: 2039389
• VIRIN: 150630-N-HE318-064
• Resolution: 3648x2832
• Size: 1.51 MB
• Location: ARAWA, PG
• Hometown: FORT WORTH, TX, US