150630-M-DN141-607 ARAWA, Autonomous Region Of Bougainsville, Papua New Guinea (June 30, 2015) Medical personnel assist patients in the casualty reception area aboard the Military Sealift Command hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH 19). Mercy sent an MH-60S Sea Hawk helicopter on a critical care patient transport mission to retrieve six injured people, including an 18-month-old infant, from Han Island, a small land mass off the coast of Carteret Island in Papua new Guinea. Mercy is in Papua New Guinea for its second mission port of Pacific Partnership 2015. 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 medical care to approximately 270,000 patients and veterinary services to more than 38,000 animals. Additionally, Pacific Partnership 2015 has provided critical infrastructure development to host nations through the completion of more than 180 engineering projects. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Valerie Eppler/Released)