DA NANG, Vietnam (Aug. 21, 2015) An orthopedic surgery

DA NANG, Vietnam (Aug. 21, 2015) An orthopedic surgery team finishes a right knee replacement procedure aboard hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH 19) by placing sutures on the knee as part of Pacific Partnership 2015. The medical team included Navy surgeons, anesthesiologists and corpsman as wells as an orthopedic surgeon with the non-governmental organization Project Hope. Mercy is at its fourth mission port for 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 projects. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Valerie Eppler/RELEASED)

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