Royal New Zealand Navy Petty Officer Richard Boyd dances with school children during a Pacific Partnership 2009 community service project at Faleloa Primary School. Pacific Partnership is a humanitarian assistance mission in the Pacific Fleet area of responsibility. Pacific Partnership is currently in Oceania, and will continue to Kiribati, Republic of the Marshall Islands and the Solomon Islands. Richard E. Byrd serves as the enabling platform for U.S. and partner nation military and non-governmental organizations to coordinate humanitarian civic assistance efforts.