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150608-M-DN141-004 SUVA, Fiji (June 8, 2015) Canadian Armed Forces Master Cpl. Michelle Parnell checks the teeth of a student from the Veiuto Primary School during a community health engagement for Pacific Partnership 2015. The Military Sealift Command hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH 19) is in Suva, Fiji for its first mission port of Pacific Partnership. 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 real world medical care to approximately 270,000 patients and veterinary services to more than 38,000 animals. Additionally, the mission has provided critical infrastructure development to host nations through more than 180 engineering projects. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Valerie Eppler/Released)