A crew member watches from an upper deck as the hospital ship USNS MERCY (T-AH 19) participates in an underway replenishment with the fleet oiler USNS PONCHATOULA (TAO 148). The hospital ship is visiting various ports in the Philippines during the first phase of its five-month humanitarian medical service and training mission. While in the Philippines, US Navy, Army and Air Force medical personnel embarked aboard the MERCY are providing treatment for indigent Filipinos, both ashore and aboard ship