 I'm David Shear, the American Ambassador to Vietnam. This is just a great opportunity for us to engage with the Vietnamese, to do good for the Vietnamese people, to make friends and influence people. This is really the diplomacy of life here, and it's one of the great kinds of events that the U.S. military does to bolster our diplomacy in this country. These missions are very visible. We get a lot of great publicity. Everybody knows we're here. It's being carried on the news, but we also get an opportunity just to do good for the Vietnamese people, and that's what's most important. Pacific Partnership has created a lot of goodwill in Vietnam. Goodwill is the basis of successful diplomacy, so your mission here has helped me do my job. I think the Vietnamese will thank us, and they'll want many more Mercy missions back, so you'll always be welcome. My hope is that we'll have more missions more often. I've learned during my tour of this ship that we not only cure people on these missions, but it's a great opportunity to bring people together to partner. We're partnering with Vietnamese doctors. We're partnering with NGOs. We're partnering with people and specialists from other countries. So this is just a great chance for us to get together with specialists and to exchange ideas and to build capacity. I'm Stephanie Garlish. I'm a veterinarian, and I'm a volunteer with World Vets, which is an American NGO working on the Mercy. In our 11 days on shore in Vietnam, we had 1,650 contact hours with Vietnamese veterinarians. We did SMEs, and we did one-on-one working with the veterinarians. We saw 1,400 animals, and that included buffalo, cattle, pigs, and dogs. We had a great time. We had really good relationships with the veterinarians there, and I feel like we exchanged good ideas back and forth. I'm construction man Cory Baines with the CBs. Here in Vietnam, I worked at two different sites. The first site was Hung Lam, which was about a four-room project. We had a complete new build and also renovation on the other building. We ran a new electrical and also painted it. Then at the other site, we worked at Hung Tin, renovated it, new tile, concrete, a new electrical, painted it as well, and also a new roof. My name is Ilana Mayer-Hershfeld, and I'm a volunteer for UCSD Pre-Lento Society. I've been working in optometry. In Vietnam, we saw 7,000 patients and gave out 7,500 eyeglasses and 9,000 sunglasses and more than 200 meds. We were basically looking for chronic and acute eye diseases and also giving out reading and disease glasses for every patient. It was really cool to see how happy the patients were when we gave them pre-pressed eyeglasses because it was a very easy solution to a big problem for most of them. Hello, I'm Captain Eric Hoffmeister, orthopedic surgeon aboard the USNS Mercy for Pacific Partnership 2012. We recently just completed our time here in Vietnam. Throughout our director of surgical services, we performed multiple surgical caps where we went out to the local population to examine patients with potential surgeries. We performed multiple surgeries on board and we also partook in multiple subject matter expert exchanges to include going into the local hospitals, exchanging patient information, giving lectures, going into their operating room and having many of the Vietnamese doctors come here to help assist in surgeries aboard the Mercy. Favorite part during this evolution was actually getting out, meeting the Vietnamese people, being able to help them. They all seem to be so incredibly appreciative of what we did. I also really enjoyed meeting the doctors, exchanging different types of technology, treatment options, getting to know them both professionally and on a social level. I'm Commander Jeff Budge. I'm the department head for the main operating room here on the USNS Mercy part of the PP-12 mission. We want to thank Vietnam for such a successful mission. We were able to screen over 660 patients at two surge caps and we also performed over 217 surgeries. We performed plastic surgery, general surgery, orthopedic surgery, ZNT and ophthalmology and many other specialties. I would like to thank Vietnam for such a great experience and being part of this.