150630-N-CF750-039 ARAWA, Autonomous Region of Bougainville, Papua New Guinea (June 30, 2015) Hospitalman Lyric Peterson, from Austin, Texas, taps a chisel held by Capt. John Moon, from Oak Harbor, Wash., as Lt. Danielle Berkowitz, seated, from Smithtown, N.Y., and Corpsman 3rd Class Stephanie Caicedo, from Jacksonville, Fla., attend during a surgical tooth extraction during a Pacific Partnership 2015 community health event in Arawa, Papua New Guinea. The Military Sealift Command hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH 19) 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. Critical infrastructure development has been supported in host nations during more than 180 engineering projects. (U.S. Navy photo by Chief Mass Communication Specialist Greg Badger/Released)