Lt. Shawn Teutsh, assigned to U.S. Naval Hospital Yokosuka, embarked aboard the U.S. 7th Fleet command ship USS Blue Ridge, extracts a patient's tooth at the Southern Community Health Center in the Republic of Palau. Blue Ridge is in the Republic of Palau conducting Pacific Partnership 2010, the fifth in a series of annual U.S. Pacific Fleet endeavors to strengthen regional relationships with host and partner nations.