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        Policy UpdatesNewsroomReoptimizationBIOGRAPHIESAF Senior Leaders      Tech. Sgt. Giles Dame leads a work safety class with Vietnam People's Army Air Defense members at Binh Thanh Dong primary school during an Operation Pacific Angel 15-3 event March 23, 2015, in Quang Ngai Province, Vietnam. PACANGEL is a total force, joint and combined humanitarian assistance operation led by the U.S. Pacific Air Forces. The operation promotes interoperability among U.S. military, host nation and multilateral military and civilian organizations. Dame is a structural craftsman assigned to the 18th Civil Engineer Squadron at Kadena Air Base, Japan. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Tong Duong)Operation Pacific Angel 15-3 spreads care in Vietnam
                        
                        
                        Tech. Sgt. Giles Dame leads a work safety class with Vietnam People's Army Air Defense members at Binh Thanh Dong primary school during an Operation Pacific Angel 15-3 event March 23, 2015, in Quang Ngai Province, Vietnam. PACANGEL is a total force, joint and combined humanitarian assistance operation led by the U.S. Pacific Air Forces. The operation promotes interoperability among U.S. military, host nation and multilateral military and civilian organizations. Dame is a structural craftsman assigned to the 18th Civil Engineer Squadron at Kadena Air Base, Japan. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Tong Duong)
                
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        Lt. Col. Thuy Tran conducts an eye exam during an Operation Pacific Angel 15-3 health service outreach event March 23, 2015, at Dung Quat Culture-Sports Center, in Quang Ngai Province, Vietnam. This is the eighth year PACANGEL has worked with regional militaries to prepare and address humanitarian crises, which has helped improved life for tens of thousands of people. Tran is the 142nd Medical Group’s chief of optometry, assigned to the Portland Air National Guard, Ore. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Tong Duong)Operation Pacific Angel 15-3 spreads care in Vietnam
                        
                        
                        Lt. Col. Thuy Tran conducts an eye exam during an Operation Pacific Angel 15-3 health service outreach event March 23, 2015, at Dung Quat Culture-Sports Center, in Quang Ngai Province, Vietnam. This is the eighth year PACANGEL has worked with regional militaries to prepare and address humanitarian crises, which has helped improved life for tens of thousands of people. Tran is the 142nd Medical Group’s chief of optometry, assigned to the Portland Air National Guard, Ore. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Tong Duong)
                
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        Capt. Aaron Goodrich and Republic of Singapore air force Lt. Jason Pek examine a patient during a Pacific Angel 15-3 human service outreach event March 24, 2015, at Dung Quat Culture-Sports Center, Quang Ngai Province, Vietnam. Pacific Angel is a multilateral humanitarian assistance civil military operation, which improves military-to-military partnerships in the Pacific while also providing medical health outreach, civic engineering projects, and subject matter exchanges among partner forces. Goodrich is assigned to the 35th Medical Group at Misawa Air Base, Japan. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Tong Duong)Operation Pacific Angel 15-3 spreads care in Vietnam
                        
                        
                        Capt. Aaron Goodrich and Republic of Singapore air force Lt. Jason Pek examine a patient during a Pacific Angel 15-3 human service outreach event March 24, 2015, at Dung Quat Culture-Sports Center, Quang Ngai Province, Vietnam. Pacific Angel is a multilateral humanitarian assistance civil military operation, which improves military-to-military partnerships in the Pacific while also providing medical health outreach, civic engineering projects, and subject matter exchanges among partner forces. Goodrich is assigned to the 35th Medical Group at Misawa Air Base, Japan. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Tong Duong)
                
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Operation PACIFIC ANGEL 15-3 spreads care in VietnamPublished March 27, 2015
                    
                    By Staff Sgt. Tong Duong
                    
                    
                    Pacific Air Forces Public Affairs
            **QUANG NGAI, Vietnam (AFNS) --**The United States and Vietnam began humanitarian assistance operations here March 23 as part of Operation Pacific Angel 15-3.Entering its eighth year, PACANGEL ensures the region's militaries are prepared to work together to address humanitarian crises. Since 2007, PACANGEL operations have improved life for tens of thousands of people."Providing humanitarian assistance is an important part of our United States Pacific Command," said Lt. Col. Darcie Yoshimoto, the PACANGEL 15-3 mission commander. "Working with our host nation to provide medical and engineering projects directly impacts and helps the people in the Quang Ngai province of Vietnam."Lead by Pacific Air Forces, PACANGEL is a total force, joint and combined operation. It involves more than 45 U.S. military members who are deployed to Vietnam to partner with local non-governmental organizations and host nation military forces, providing various functions. This includes health-services outreach, engineering civil action programs and various subject matter expert exchanges.Medical professionals and civil engineers from the U.S. Army, Marines, Navy and Air Force set up temporary clinics to provide general health, optometry, dental, physical therapy, pediatrics and engineering programs for at least 2,500 patients, Yoshimoto said.Pacific Angel participants are also renovating two schools and two district medical clinics by providing structural, roofing, plumbing, electrical and painting repairs.For Senior Airman Hoang Nguyen, an 18th Civil Engineer Squadron water and fuel maintenance specialist, helping to improve the living conditions for others gives him a sense of pride."The majority of my relatives live within hours of this province, so it feels good to be part of this operation and have a direct impact on their lives," Nguyen said. "Their standard of living is different from ours, so we are retrofitting the plumbing of two schools and two medical clinics with up to date and higher quality parts to ensure sanitary conditions and that these upgrades last a lot longer."Although this is the fifth time U.S. military members have worked with host nation military personnel to improve quality of life throughout the region, this is the first multilateral operation to take place in Vietnam. Participants included members of the Royal Cambodian, Republic of Singapore, and Royal Thai air forces.Vietnam 



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