 My name is Commander Matthew Provencher. I'm the Director of Surgical Services and also an orthopedic surgeon at the MTF USNS Mercy. It's been a great pleasure to be here on Pacific Partnership 2012, but specifically these last three days what we have done is offer surgery for our shipmates and crew on the USNS Mercy. We felt that this was a great opportunity from the clinical side to offer patients the opportunity for improvement in function, cosmesis or their overall well-being by providing them surgical intervention during a relative period of downtime. That way so that when they return to their command they'll be able to hit the deck plates running and be at their maximal capacity and perhaps even more enhanced than when they came out on surgery in terms of function.