HAMBANTOTA, Sri Lanka (Mar. 8, 2017) Sgt. Paul Andras from 4th Marine Regiment trades jokes with school children at Tzu Chi National School during a community engagement event during Pacific Partnership 2017 mission stop Sri Lanka March 8. Pacific Partnership is the largest annual multilateral humanitarian assistance and disaster relief preparedness mission conducted in the Indo-Asia-Pacific and aims to enhance regional coordination in areas such as medical readiness and preparedness for manmade and natural disasters.

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