220630-N-AU520-1038 TUY HOA, VIETNAM (June 30, 2022) – Cmdr. Don Lucas, a pediatric surgeon (left) aboard Military Sealift Command hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH 19), Lt. Cmdr. Carolyn Gosztyla, a general surgeon from Walter Reed Medical Center (middle), and Le Quac Hoy, Phu Yen Obstetric and Pediatric Hospital's lead pediatric surgeon (middle right), operate on a Vietnamese child during 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.

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