150619-M-DN141-001 PACIFIC OCEAN (June 19, 2015) Able Body Seaman William Brinson, from Jacksonville, Fla., mans the helm of the Military Sealift Command hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH 19) during Pacific Partnership 2015. Mercy is underway to its next mission stop in Papua New Guinea. Pacific Partnership is in its tenth iteration and is the largest annual multilateral humanitarian assistance and disaster relief preparedness mission conducted in the Indo-Asia-Pacific region. 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. Additionally, the mission has provided critical infrastructure development to host nations through more than 180 engineering project. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Araceli Alarcon /Released)