SOUTH CHINA SEA (July 5, 2022) Service Members and Civilian Mariners embarked aboard the Military Sealift Command hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH 19) participate in a Fourth of July celebration while underway for Pacific Partnership 2022. Now in its 17th year, Pacific Partnership is the largest annual multinational humanitarian assistance and disaster relief preparedness mission conducted in the Indo-Pacific. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Jacob Woitzel)