Military Images: Combat Camera Pacific – 2006 Mercy Deployment – Part 08

Combat Camera Pacific – 2006 Mercy Deployment

Republic of Indonesia, August 2006

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KUPANG, Indonesia (Aug. 23, 2006)
Members of the hospital ship, USNS Mercy (T-AH 19) provide care during a medical and dental care civil action project for the people living on this Indonesian island. Mercy is in the fourth month of her five-month humanitarian and civic assistance deployment to South and Southeast Asia where her crew has already treated thousands of people. The ship’s mission is being carried out by volunteers from Project HOPE and the UCSD Pre-Dental Society along with a contingent of military medical specialists from the United States, India, Malaysia, and Canada. Mercy’s U.S. military crew consists of medical teams from the Navy, Air Force and Army.
U.S. Navy Graphic Illustration by Chief Mass Communications Specialist Edward G. Martens (RELEASED)