150810-N-TQ272-303 SUBIC BAY, Philippines (Aug. 10, 2015) Hospital Corpsman 1st Class Emmanual Aligwekwe, assigned to the Military Sealift Command hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH 19), explains laboratory procedures to Brig. Gen. Joselito Payumo Avancena, surgeon general of the Armed Forces of the Philippines, during Pacific Partnership 2015. Mercy is in the Philippines for its third mission port of Pacific Partnership 2015. Now in its 10th year, Pacific Partnership is the largest annual multilateral humanitarian assistance and disaster relief preparedness mission conducted in the Indo-Asia-Pacific region. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Mark El-Rayes/Released)