Medical and dental personnel aboard the hospital ship USNS Mercy got underway Tuesday from San Diego for an annual humanitarian mission in the Indo-Pacific, Naval News reports.
Pacific Partnership 2024, the mission’s 19th iteration, is the largest annual multilateral disaster response preparedness mission conducted in the region, and will take the Mercy to the Republic of the Marshall Islands, Solomon Islands, Palau, and the Federated States of Micronesia.
