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DoDLive Bloggers Roundtable: Pacific Partnership 2010

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U.S. Navy Capt. Lisa M. Franchetti, commodore of the hospital ship USNS Mercy

U.S. Navy Capt. Lisa M. Franchetti, commodore of the hospital ship USNS Mercy

 

We have scheduled a DODLive Bloggers Roundtable with U.S. Navy Capt. Lisa M. Franchetti, commodore of the hospital ship USNS Mercy, Pacific Partnership 2010, for Thursday, May 20 at 4 p.m. EDT. 

Commodore Franchetti will discuss Pacific partnership 2010, which kicked off a five-month deployment on May 1, 2010 when the hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH 19) departed San Diego for Southeast-Asia. Read Navy.mil story, USNS Mercy Sets Sail for Pacific Partnership. 

Pacific Partnership works by, with and through partner nations, non-governmental organizations and other U.S. government and international agencies to execute a variety of humanitarian and civic assistance missions in the pacific fleet area of responsibility. This year’s mission will focus ashore with a variety of engineering, medical, dental, subject matter exchanges, and logistic civic action programs to provide humanitarian and civic assistance to Vietnam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Timor-Leste, Palau and Papua New Guinea. 

To listen to the interview, click here.   

To read the transcript from this interview, click here. 

To read the Defense.gov article, click here.  

Joining us on the call were Thomas Goering, Navy Cyberspace.com; David Axe, Warisboring.com, and Chris Albon, Warandhealth.com. 

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