DA NANG, Vietnam (Aug. 21, 2015) Chief Musician Ian

DA NANG, Vietnam (Aug. 21, 2015) Chief Musician Ian Charleton with the Pacific Fleet Band plays a solo on his saxophone during a performance at the Dragon Bridge in Da Nang, Vietnam. The band is currently embarked aboard the hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH 19) for Pacific Partnership 2015. Mercy is in Vietnam for its fourth 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 Chief Mass Communication Specialist Christopher E. Tucker/RELEASED)