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US Navy first reponders
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — American sailors and personnel from nine other nations recently wrapped up a two-week exercise in the South Pacific island nation of Samoa as part of an annual U.S. Navy humanitarian mission. The sailors, along with personnel from Samoa, Australia, Canada, Germany, Japan...

![Samoa first responders pull simulated casualties out of the water during a disaster-relief exercise in the island nation in late October 2025. The training was part of the annual U.S. Navy-led Pacific Partnership humanitarian mission. [Dana Millington/Australian Defense Department] first responders](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/samoa_first_responders.jpg?itok=IYobcbnB)