ROXAS CITY, Philippines (July 23, 2015) The Chief of Staff for Pacific Partnership 2015 Royal New Zealand Air Force Wing Commander Jennifer Atkinson speaks to local leaders at a Women, Peace and Security meeting on the hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH 19). Mercy is in the Philippines for its third 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 1st Class Trevor Andersen/RELEASED)