ROXAS CITY, Philippines (July 31, 2015) Capt. Christopher
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ROXAS CITY, Philippines (July 31, 2015) Capt. Christopher Engdahl, mission commander of Pacific Partnership 2015, gives remarks during a ribbon cutting ceremony at the Barangay Talon Health Center. The ceremony was held to celebrate the completion of a new women's health center. The hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH 19) is currently 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. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Peter Reft/Released)
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