OLONGAPO, Philippines (Aug. 13, 2015) Royal New Zealand
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OLONGAPO, Philippines (Aug. 13, 2015) Royal New Zealand Air Force Wing Cmdr. Jennifer Atkinson, the Pacific Partnership 2015 chief of staff, paints a Filipino child's face during a cultural exchange as part of Pacific Partnership 2015. The hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH 19) is in the Philippines for its third 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 1st Class Trevor Andersen/RELEASED)
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