SUVA, Fiji (June 8, 2015) Rear Adm. Bruce Gillingham, the commander of Navy Medicine West, speaks to an audience at King’s Wharf pier during a ceremony for Pacific Partnership 2015. The hospital ship USNS Mercy is currently in Suva, Fiji, for its first mission port of PP15. 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. Additionally, the mission has provided official infrastructure development to host nations through more than 180 engineering projects. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Peter Reft/RELEASED)