ARAWA, Autonomous Region of Bougainville, Papua New Guinea (July 3, 2015) Sailors from the hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH 19) play basketball with students during Pacific Partnership 2015. Sailors visited the Arawa Secondary School to play basketball and volleyball with students as part of a community relation’s event during PP15. Mercy 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. 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: | 07.02.2015 |
Date Posted: | 07.06.2015 19:11 |
Photo ID: | 2046046 |
VIRIN: | 150703-F-SD522-207 |
Resolution: | 4709x2587 |
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Location: | ARAWA, PG |
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