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U . S . Navy Hospital ship Usns Mercy

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th 19 departed for pacific Partnership

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2012 to participate in the largest

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humanitarian and civic assistance

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mission in the ASIA pacific region ,

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tremendous number of other nations will

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join us and we'll work together better

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understand how to work inter

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operatively so that if a real disaster

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did occur , we would be able to respond .

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The theme of this year's deployment is

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preparing in calm to respond in crisis .

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I fully expect that we will learn as

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much from our counterparts when we go

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over and work side by side and have our

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subject matter expert exchanges and on

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various topics and work together with

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exercises and symposiums reporting from

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SAN Diego Petty Officer Claire Farron .