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August 24, 2010 - SMH/AAP
AAP
A group of Australian defence personnel have departed East Timor after a two week visit providing much-needed humanitarian aid on the final stopover of the annual US-led Pacific Partnership mission.
Under the program, a team of US and Australian doctors and other specialists will tour the region for three months aboard the hospital ship USNS Mercy, performing humanitarian, medical and engineering tasks.
Pacific Partnership has been conducted annually by the US Pacific Fleet since the devastating Boxing Day Tsunami in 2004
This was the fifth year of Australia's involvement in Pacific Partnership, with Australian Defence Force (ADF) personnel assisting in aid activities in Vietnam, Cambodia, Indonesia, PNG and East Timor.
Pacific Partnership 2010 started in June with some 70 ADF personnel in three groups working from USNS Mercy. Landing ships HMAS Labuan and HMAS Tarakan assisted with ship to shore movements in some countries.
In the final stopover in East Timor, 25 ADF personnel plus Labuan and Tarakan worked with the US military and East Timorese Defence Force personnel, on a variety of aid activities.
"Humanitarian assistance efforts included engineering, medical, dental, veterinary and community service projects in various regions within East Timor," said ADF contingent commander Lieutenant Colonel David Collins.
Engineers painted, re-tiled and re-roofed a school in Dili with their US and Timorese counterparts.
Medical and dental personnel conducted 174 surgeries in the 11 operating theatres aboard USNS Mercy and treated some 19,000 patients at various medical and dental clinics.
© 2010 AAP
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August 24, 2010 - SMH/AAP
AAP
A group of Australian defence personnel have departed East Timor after a two week visit providing much-needed humanitarian aid on the final stopover of the annual US-led Pacific Partnership mission.
Under the program, a team of US and Australian doctors and other specialists will tour the region for three months aboard the hospital ship USNS Mercy, performing humanitarian, medical and engineering tasks.
Pacific Partnership has been conducted annually by the US Pacific Fleet since the devastating Boxing Day Tsunami in 2004
This was the fifth year of Australia's involvement in Pacific Partnership, with Australian Defence Force (ADF) personnel assisting in aid activities in Vietnam, Cambodia, Indonesia, PNG and East Timor.
Pacific Partnership 2010 started in June with some 70 ADF personnel in three groups working from USNS Mercy. Landing ships HMAS Labuan and HMAS Tarakan assisted with ship to shore movements in some countries.
In the final stopover in East Timor, 25 ADF personnel plus Labuan and Tarakan worked with the US military and East Timorese Defence Force personnel, on a variety of aid activities.
"Humanitarian assistance efforts included engineering, medical, dental, veterinary and community service projects in various regions within East Timor," said ADF contingent commander Lieutenant Colonel David Collins.
Engineers painted, re-tiled and re-roofed a school in Dili with their US and Timorese counterparts.
Medical and dental personnel conducted 174 surgeries in the 11 operating theatres aboard USNS Mercy and treated some 19,000 patients at various medical and dental clinics.
© 2010 AAP
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