ROXAS CITY, Philippines (July 31, 2015) Cadet Joshua

ROXAS CITY, Philippines (July 31, 2015) Cadet Joshua Jepsen (center right), from San Diego, gives a briefing on the auxiliary engine room of the hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH 19) to maritime cadets and staff from Colegia De La Purisima Concepcion as part of a tour during Pacific Partnership 2015. The cadets received briefings about the ship's forecastle, bridge and engine rooms. 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)