ARAWA, Autonomous Region of Bougainville, Papua New

ARAWA, Autonomous Region of Bougainville, Papua New Guinea (June 30, 2015) Musician 2nd Class Katherine Chaubot, from Florence, S.C., with the Pacific Fleet Band, plays the trumpet at a community outreach project during Pacific Partnership 2015. The hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH 19) is in Papua New Guinea for its second 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 3rd Class William McCann/RELEASED)