KOKOPO, Papua New Guinea (July 7, 2015) The Pacific
Summary
KOKOPO, Papua New Guinea (July 7, 2015) The Pacific Fleet Band performs for a crowd at a market during a community engagement event as part of Pacific Partnership 2015. The hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH 19) is currently in Papua New Guinea for its second mission port for 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. 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)