Physician, Lt. Jennifer Eng-Kulawy checks the health of a local child during a medical civic action project (MEDCAP) in Samar, Philippines in support of Pacific Partnership 2012, 22 June. While in the Philippines a total of six MEDCAPs are scheduled to take place and provide a variety of medical, dental and optometry patient centered care. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Clay M. Whaley

Having finished the second visit of its four nation assistance mission, the USNS Mercy is now anchored off Vietnam. Pacific Partnership 2012 had a wildly successful two weeks in the Philippines and Mercy, with its international and NGO partners, accomplished a great deal.
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Military Sealift Command hospital ship USNS Mercy sails through the remote islands to the Northeast of North Sulawesi, Indonesia, on June 12.The Mercy had just left Sangihe i, one of several islands in North Sulawesi that Pacific Partnership 2012 visited. Photo by Kristopher Radder

Pacific Partnership 2012 arrived in Samar, the Philippines today after completing a successful humanitarian mission in Indonesia. PP 2012 consists of the hospital ship USNS Mercy, scores of U.S. military volunteers, troops from other militaries and personnel from many non-governmental organizations. The 2012 version of this annual event has wrapped up a visit to Indonesia and moved on to the second of four host nations on its schedule. PP 2012 will have a total of eleven partner nations and two dozen non-governmental organizations participating at various times during the mission.
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Lt. Cmdr. Kathleen M. O’mara, assigned to the pediatrics ward, conducts a medical check-up on an 8-month old Timorese patient aboard the Military Sealift Command hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH 19). Mercy is anchored off the coast of East Timor supporting the Pacific Partnership 2008 mission. acific Partnership is a four-month deployment by Mercy to assist the governments of participating nations with medical, dental and construction civic assistance programs. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class A. Nick De La Cruz

Chae Kim, a University of California-San Diego Pre-Dental Society sophomore student, shares a moment with a young Timorese patient in the pediatrics ward aboard the Military Sealift Command hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH 19). Kim is one of 40 students volunteering during their summer break to support Pacific Partnership 2008.

Cmdr. Rosemarie Tan weighs a patient at a Pacific Partnership medical civic action program at Nularn 1 Elementary School. Pacific Partnership is a four-month deployment by the Military Sealift Command hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH-19) to assist the governments of participating nations with medical, dental and construction civic assistance programs. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Joshua Martin

PHILIPPINES (June 6, 2008) Capt. Kathy Goldberg, a physical therapist aboard the Military Sealift Command hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH 19), assists Romeo Bintoy with taking his first steps in eight years after having corrective plastic surgery. Pacific Partnership program assists the government of the Philippines in providing local communities with medical, dental and engineering civic action programs providing focused humanitarian assistance. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Joseph Seavey