BASIAO, Philippines (Aug. 1, 2015) Navy Seabees and Air Force RED HORSE engineers from the hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH 19) record a dance performance by students at Basiao Elementary School. The engineers spent two weeks with the students while rebuilding parts of the school that had been damaged in Hurricane Yolanda. Mercy is in the Philippines for its third 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


BASIAO, Philippines (Aug. 1, 2015) Navy Seabees and Air Force RED HORSE engineers from the hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH 19) record a dance performance by students at Basiao Elementary School. The engineers spent two weeks with the students while rebuilding parts of the school that had been damaged in Hurricane Yolanda. Mercy is in the Philippines for its third 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. While training for crisis conditions, Pacific Partnership missions to date have provided real world 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. ( Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Trevor Andersen/RELEASED)


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