Visual Masterworks – Professional Photography

Combat Camera Pacific – 2006 Mercy Deployment

Part 01

These images are from the start of one of my favorite deployments while attached to the Navy’s Combat Camera Group – Pacific.  Documenting the ship’s departure from San Diego, California; to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii; Guam; and it’s arrival to Manila, Republic of the Philippines.

The Military Sealift Command (MSC) hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH 19), begins its five-month humanitarian deployment to South and Southeast Asia and the Pacific Islands. HSC-25 along with several health and civic-related organizations worked together to aid in humanitarian assistance and civic efforts. Mercy is uniquely capable of supporting medical and humanitarian assistance needs and is configured with special medical equipment and a robust multi-specialized medical team to provide a range of services ashore as well as aboard the ship. The medical staff is augmented with an assistance crew, many of whom are part of non-governmental organizations that have significant medical capabilities. U.S. Navy photo by Chief Photographer’s Mate Edward G. Martens (All Images – RELEASED)

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