150707-N-BK290-005 RAPOPO, Papua New Guinea (July 7, 2015) Capt. Christopher Engdahl, mission commander for Pacific Partnership 2015, looks at a gravesite at the Rabaul (Bita Paka) War Cemetery. Service members from the U.S., Australia, Papua New Guinea, New Zealand and Japan as well as civilians from non-governmental organizations embarked aboard the Military Sealift Command hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH 19) visited the cemetery to lay wreaths and pay respects to those fallen during the World War II battles and other conflicts in the region. Mercy is in Papua New Guinea for its second mission port of Pacific Partnership 2015. Pacific Partnership is in its 10th iteration and is the largest annual multilateral humanitarian assistance and disaster relief preparedness mission conducted in the Indo-Asia-Pacific region. (U.S. Navy photo by Chief Mass Communication Specialist Christopher E. Tucker/Released)