Army Sealift Command hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH 19) returns to San Diego, Sept. 30. Mercy participated within the seventeenth annual Pacific Partnership mission, the most important annual multinational humanitarian help and catastrophe reduction preparedness mission carried out all through the Indo-Pacific area. (U.S. Navy picture by Senior Chief Mass Communication Specialist Rosa Paschall)
Pacific Partnership is the most important annual multinational humanitarian help and catastrophe reduction preparedness mission carried out all through the Indo-Pacific area.
“It has actually been an honor to guide a various crew of dedicated women and men on the Pacific Partnership 2022 group,” stated Pacific Partnership 2022 Mission Commander Capt. Hank Kim. “We got down to strengthen ties and create new friendships with our host and companion nations, and we achieved this with resounding success.”
The mission group labored collectively with collaborating host and companion nations to boost regional interchangeability and catastrophe response capabilities, enhance safety and stability within the area, and foster new and enduring friendships within the Indo-Pacific.
“One of many mission highlights was seeing the multinational data trade and fervour for studying from everybody who was part of Pacific Partnership,” stated Capt. Jeffrey Feinberg, Mercy’s commanding officer. “Each participant introduced one thing new to the desk, whether or not it was a safer method to assemble the muse for a constructing, a brand new strategy to a affected person process, or a extra environment friendly means for catastrophe response. That collaboration is what enhances each nation’s capability to reply to disaster and gives an everlasting influence. That, and the friendships we make, are what’s going to stay lengthy after Mercy returns house.”
Host nations included Vietnam, Palau, the Philippines, and Solomon Islands. Companion nations included Australia, Chile, Japan, the Republic of Korea, and the UK.
Pacific Partnership noticed greater than 15,000 sufferers, accomplished 10 main building initiatives, participated in additional than 80 host nation outreach occasions, and carried out humanitarian help and catastrophe reduction workshops
in every mission cease in the course of the five-month mission.
For extra data on Pacific Partnership and USNS Mercy, please go to https://www.msc.usff.navy.mil/Ships/Mercy/
