SUVA, Fiji (June 8, 2015) Yoshiko Hanzawa, a dental hygienist with the Japanese Maritime Self Defense Force, educates a Fijian woman about dental hygiene at Ratu Sakuana Park during a community health engagement for Pacific Partnership 2015. The Military Sealift Command hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH 19) 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. Critical infrastructure development has been supported in host nations during more than 180 engineering projects. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class William McCann/RELEASED)