PACIFIC OCEAN - (June 5, 2015) Royal Australian Air Force Flight Lt. Luke Pitty, a dentist from Townsville, Australia, and Royal Australian Air Force Leading Aircraft Woman Hannah Sunasky, a dental technician from Adelaide, Australia, set up a mock dental examination room aboard the Military Sealift Command hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH 19) during Pacific Partnership 2015. The dental equipment is part of a mobile dental lab, which will enable medical personnel to treat children near the Veiuto Primary School during a community health engagement. Pacific Partnership is in its tenth iteration


PACIFIC OCEAN - (June 5, 2015) Royal Australian Air Force Flight Lt. Luke Pitty, a dentist from Townsville, Australia, and Royal Australian Air Force Leading Aircraft Woman Hannah Sunasky, a dental technician from Adelaide, Australia, set up a mock dental examination room aboard the Military Sealift Command hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH 19) during Pacific Partnership 2015. The dental equipment is part of a mobile dental lab, which will enable medical personnel to treat children near the Veiuto Primary School during a community health engagement. Pacific Partnership is in its tenth 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. Senior Airman Peter Reft


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