A motor launch from the hospital ship USNS MERCY (T-AH-19), background, transports local Filipinos back to the ship. The recently outfitted Military Sealift Command ship is visiting various ports in the Philippines during the first phase of its five-month humanitarian medical service and training mission. U.S. Navy, Army and Air Force medical personnel embarked aboard the MERCY are providing treatment for indigent Filipinos, both ashore and aboard ship