USNS Mercy in Vietnam on Pacific Partnership Mission (Sanders '19)
Published on June 24, 2022
A U.S. hospital ship along with 600 sailors and service members from Australia, Japan and the United Kingdom is in Vietnam on the first leg of a five-month humanitarian mission to the Indo-Pacific. This year’s Pacific Partnership is the first to involve a hospital ship since 2018. For the past two years, the mission has involved online meetings and scaled down fly-in visits to countries in the region, according to Navy spokeswoman Lt. j.g. Molly Sanders '19, USN. Read more here.