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| Blog Name: | Pacific Partnership |
| Url: | http://pacificpartnership.wordpress.com/ |
| Language: | English |
| Topics: | humanitarian, navy, news |
| Description: | The U.S. Navy’s Pacific Partnership is the dedicated humanitarian and civic assistance mission conducted with and through partner nations, non-governmental organizations and other U.S. and international government agencies to execute a variety of humanitarian civic action missions in the Pacific Fleet area of responsibility. Basically, we’re working with others in the nations we visit to strengthen our ability to work together in a crisis during a time of calm. Pacific Partnership 2009 will work from USNS Richard E. Byrd, an underway replenishment ship, in the Oceanic nations of Kiribati, Republic of the Marshall Islands, Samoa, Solomon Islands and Tonga. |
| Popularity: | 7 Followers |
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Pacific Partnership 2009 Concludes Its Journey
Mr. Tom Weinz Special to the Pacific Partnership blog from DipNotes, the official State Department blog By Tom Weinz Foreign Service Liaison Officer (FSLO) Pacific Partnership has officially come to an end. The final projects were carried out in the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI), a group of 29 coral atolls and five single islands with a land area of just 70 square miles spread across 750,000 square miles of ocean. The Marshall I
Mr. Tom Weinz Special to the Pacific Partnership blog from DipNotes, the official State Department blog By Tom Weinz Foreign Service Liaison Officer (FSLO) Pacific Partnership has officially come to an end. The final projects were carried out in the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI), a group of 29 coral atolls and five single islands with a land area of just 70 square miles spread across 750,000 square miles of ocean. The Marshall I
The Marshallese and medical care
CAPT Tamara Grigsby Posted by Navy Capt. Tamara M. Grigsby, Mission Pediatrician The Marshallese people have tremendous access to medical care, even those living on remote atolls. Corrected cleft lips and palates, surgical scars of the sternum, neck and abdomen are evidence of the PIHCP connecting patients to surgical teams in Hawaii. Under the Compact of Free Association, the U.S. has the option to establish and use military areas and facilities in
CAPT Tamara Grigsby Posted by Navy Capt. Tamara M. Grigsby, Mission Pediatrician The Marshallese people have tremendous access to medical care, even those living on remote atolls. Corrected cleft lips and palates, surgical scars of the sternum, neck and abdomen are evidence of the PIHCP connecting patients to surgical teams in Hawaii. Under the Compact of Free Association, the U.S. has the option to establish and use military areas and facilities in
Kiribati — Land of contradictions
CAPT Tamara Grigsby Posted by Navy Capt. Tamara M. Grigsby, Mission Pediatrician Kiribati weighs heavily on my mind. It is a land of contradictions. Infants with infected sores and abscesses, held by mothers who pick their noses as we talk. Public nose picking and nit picking are socially acceptable behavior in Kiribati. Active toddlers, coughing and sniffling. There noses run and no one bothers to wipe them. They congregate around me as th
CAPT Tamara Grigsby Posted by Navy Capt. Tamara M. Grigsby, Mission Pediatrician Kiribati weighs heavily on my mind. It is a land of contradictions. Infants with infected sores and abscesses, held by mothers who pick their noses as we talk. Public nose picking and nit picking are socially acceptable behavior in Kiribati. Active toddlers, coughing and sniffling. There noses run and no one bothers to wipe them. They congregate around me as th
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