Uploaded November 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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When disaster strikes, teamwork matters most

Samoa hosted Australian Defence Force personnel, and partners from the 🇺🇸, 🇫🇷, and 🇳🇿 in 📍 Apia recently for a Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief (HADR) exercise as part of Pacific Partnership 2025.

Pacific Partnership 2025 is the US Navy’s largest annual humanitarian assistance and disaster relief mission conducted in the Indo-Pacific region.

ADF support for the mission includes four personnel embarked on US Navy ships USS Pearl Harbour and USS John L Canley for the duration of the mission, as well as visits by specialist ADF personnel to:
🇵🇬 Papua New Guinea
🇫🇲 Federated States of Micronesia
🇼🇸 Samoa

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