Pacific Angel 10-2 aids schools, medical clinics Published July 9, 2010 By Capt. Timothy Lundberg 36 WG/PA PITTSBURGH IAP ARS -- Airman and Sailors from around the Pacific and continental U.S. delivered medical supplies to a local elementary school and made civic infrastructure improvements at two local village medical clinics during Pacific Angel 10-2 in May. Pacific Angel is a U.S. Pacific Command humanitarian and civic assistance mission that takes place in countries around the Pacific to provide medical relief and improve capacity building. This humanitarian and civic assistance program is aimed at improving military civic cooperation between the United States and countries throughout the region. Engineers installed windows, doors, door jams and more than 500 feet of wiring at two local village medical clinics in Tan Thoi and Troung Thanh. More than 50 military members participated in this operation and worked side-byside with Vietnamese officials and military members. Efforts also took place at medical clinics that were set up in support of Pacific Angel 10-2. "We received pharmaceutical supplies, took inventory , organized medication by type and category, set up patient rooms, set up waiting areas and treatment areas," said Maj. Gerald Delk, a Reservist deployed from Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base Fort Worth, Texas. "We also rehearsed how the mission would move forward and how we would interact with the Vietnamese physicians." The Pacific Angel team broke up the classrooms into specific clinics such as family medicine, dentistry, optometry and women's health. "We developed a plan to distribute the patients and interact with the Vietnamese physicians," Major Delk said. Each American physician was paired with a Vietnamese medical technician and each Vietnamese physician with a U.S. medical technician. We did this as we combined our efforts to provide care to the Vietnamese residents of the Can Tho area."