Photos: Visit to USNS Mercy

I was supposed to make this blog post in 2012, but I waited till 2015 to do this. Apologies to those who waited. A lot of my friends asked me how I got a chance to ride the chopper and go to the ship, and so this blogpost is only meant to shed light on the reason how I was selected and on the collaborative humanitarian work by eight nations to provide assistance to countries which need help.
The US Embassy wrote to me one morning that they would like to invite some bloggers, and therefore I sent them the list of Cambodian bloggers I knew, except Princess Soma Norodom who was honorably invited by them. USNS Mercy is a hospital ship with 894 feet, and a crew size of + 1,200, (70 civil service mariners, and 1,200 Navy medical personnel).

usns put on helmet — **Okay, I was getting ready for the flight.**

usns nice american soldier — **He helped us put on our helmet and got us ready for the flight. We took off near the airport.**

USns tharum and me — **Brother Tharum and I**

usns with soma — **Princess Soma Norodom and I**

usns saoyuth — **Happy Dara Saoyuth on the Helicopter flight**

usns sovath chap shooting photos — **Chetra and Thary were always ready to shoot (photos)**

black hox — **We got on the one on the right.**

USNS handsome dudes — **It took me a day for my ears to recover from the helicopter noise.**

usns above1 — **Its beautiful from above.**

usns F and M soldiers — **Say cheese… The officers accompanied us all the way from Phnom Penh to Sihanouk and to Koh Kong.**

usns from above — **The view we had minutes after we were above Phnom Penh**

usns group photo — **A group photo inside USNS Mercy**

USNS woman — **The officer provided us a lot of information about USNS Mercy Ship.**

usns boy patient — **A small patient inside USNS Mercy**

usns boy — **He didn’t look afraid and was awarded a medal for his courage. =)**

usns patient — **His wife did an eye surgery on the ship. Medical staff said that they only did minor or mildly serious surgeries.**

usns sleeping for patients — **Facilities inside the USNS Mercy**

usns scanner — **Facilities inside the ship**

usns lunch together — **We had lunch together inside the USNS Mercy after a tour around**

usns megan — **I made friends with Megan who came with the USNS Mercy Ship**

usns soma — **Princess Soma and her new friends inside the USNS Mercy. Everywhere she goes, people love taking pictures with her. =D**

usns attentive listeners — **We were given a tour around the ship and the ship captain was giving some bits of how the ship travels.**

usns explaing — **I forgot his name, but usually names can be seen from the uniform.**

usns koh kong to hospital — **The view we had after we reached Koh Kong from Sihanouk Ville where the ship was docked.**

usns checking up — **Villagers getting checked by a few American medical personnel before proceeding to the treatment room**

usns supplies — **The officers preparing medical supplies in Koh Kong**

usns suppliesss — **I could faint at the sight of these.**

usns patients at school — **Villagers lining up for medical services provided by the USNS Mercy’s medical staff members**

usns curing — **Medical members tending to the boy’s teeth**

usns medical check up — **the medical doctor and the translator talking to the mother and daughter**

usns american soldiers two men — **We flew from Phnom Penh to Sihanouk where the ship was docked. Later on, we were flown to Koh Kong where the medical site was set up to give medical services to villagers.**

usns outside shop — **The lovely view of the deck from inside USNS Mercy**

Invited bloggers for the visit to USNS Mercy:
Norodom Soma: https://somanorodom.wordpress.com
Bun Tharum: http://tharum.com/blog
Bon Sovathary: http://duckorino.blogspot.com/
Chap Chetra: http://khmerscholar.com
Phin Santel: http://khmerbird.com
Dara Saoyuth: http://saoyuth.wordpress.com

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