High Speed Vessel Swift-Southern Partnership Station 2012

Lt. Lawrence White, assigned to Maritime Civil Affairs and Security Training Command, embarked aboard High Speed Vessel Swift, hands a stuffed animal to a student at Escuela de Educacion Especial Elementary School. The sailors were at the school to hand out stuffed animals, donated by Loving Hugs Inc., to children attending the school as part of a Southern Partnership Station 2012 community service project. Southern Partnership Station is an annual deployment of U.S. ships to the U.S. Southern Command area of responsibility in the Caribbean, Central and South America.