Ayah seorang pasien (kiri) merangkul Navy Ship Serviceman 2nd Class Christian Puentes, dari San Diego, California, petugas di fasilitas medis rumah sakit terapung Angkatan Laut Amerika Serikat USNS Mercy (T-AH 19) saat pemeriksaan kesehatan anaknya satu tahun setelah Tsunami menghancurkan kota Banda Aceh bulan Desember 2004. USNS Mercy akan berada di lepas pantai Aceh untuk memberikan bantuan kemanusiaan dan kemasyarakatan kepada masyarakat di pulau kecil. Saat ini adalah bulan ketiga USNS Mercy memberikan perawatan medis kepada ribuan orang di Asia Selatan dan Tenggara dari keseluruhan perjalanan bantuan kemanusiaan selama lima bulan. Awal kapal USNS Mercy terdiri dari tim medis yang berasal dari berbagai organisasi di banyak negara, Seabees dari Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 40, Skuadron Dua Lima Helikopter Tempur Laut dan Showband Angkatan Laut Amerika Serikat. Saat ini USNS Mercy berada di lepas pantai Aceh untuk memberikan bantuan kemanusiaan.

A patient's father (left) embraces Navy Ship Serviceman 2nd Class Christian Puentes, of San Diego, Cailf., a member of the Medical Treatment Facility aboard the U.S. Naval hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH 19), after his son returns for a check up aboard the ship a year after the December 2004 Tsunami devastated the city. Mercy will be off the coast to provide humanitarian and civic assistance to the people of this small island. The ship is in the third month of its five-month humanitarian assistance deployment where thousands of people from South and Southeast Asia have received medical treatment. Mercyís diverse crew consists of a multi-national, organizational medical team, Seabees from Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 40, Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron Two Five and the U.S. Navy Showband. Mercy is currently off the coast to provide humanitarian assistance here.

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