Stock Photo - Indian Ocean -- 18 Feb 2005 -- U. S. Navy medical personnel perform surgery on an Indonesian man to remove a cyst aboard the Military Sealift Command (MSC) hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH 19). Mercy is serving as an enabling platform to assist humanitarian operations ashore in ways that host nations and international relief organization find useful. Mercy is currently off the waters of Indonesia in support of Operation Unified Assistance, the humanitarian relief effort to aid the victims of the tsunami that struck Southeast Asia -- Picture by Timothy Smith/Lightroom Photos/US Navy.