KOKOPO, Papua New Guinea Lt. Joseph Lai, from Bloomfield Hills, Mich., prepares a patient for dental work during a community health engagement. Medical personnel from the hospital ship USNS Mercy arrived in Kokopo to provide various medical services to patients during Pacific Partnership 2015. Mercy is in Papua New Guinea for its second mission port of PP15. Pacific Partnership is in its tenth 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 medical care to approximately 270,000 patients and veterinary services to more than 38,000 animals. Additionally, PP15 has provided critical infrastructure development to host nations through the completion of more than 180 engineering projects.