160922-N-TR165-102 PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii (Sept. 22, 2016) Sailors and Tiger Cruise participants aboard hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH 19) man the rails as Mercy departs Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam. Tiger Cruise is an underway that gives friends and family of embarked Mercy personnel an opportunity to experience life at sea. Pacific Partnership 2016 deployed in May, embarked aboard Mercy, visiting six ports, during which civilian and military personnel from 14 partner nations worked together, exchanging knowledge and best practices in order to improve collective disaster response preparedness in the Indo-Asia-Pacific region. Upon departure from Hawaii, Mercy, with the embarked Pacific Partnership 2016 team, will sail to her homeport of San Diego. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class William Cousins/Released)