ROXAS CITY, Philippines (July 24, 2015) Capt. Chris

ROXAS CITY, Philippines (July 24, 2015) Capt. Chris Engdahl, Mission Commander for Pacific Partnership 2015, meets with Armed Forces of the Philippines Lt. Col. Victor Llapitan, the Battalion Commander of 61st IB, and Capt. Larry Camacam, Officer in Charge of the Roxas City School for the Craftsman engineering site. The hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH 19) is in the Philippines for its third mission port of Pacific Partnership 2015. 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 1st Class Trevor Andersen/RELEASED)