SOUTH CHINA SEA (June 18, 2022) – Pacific Partnership Mission Commander Captain Henry Kim, left, and Navy Personnel Specialist Seaman Latoriya Hird, from Bradenton, Florida, cut the cake during a Juneteenth observation on the mess decks of Military Sealift Command hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH 19) 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.

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