USS Cleveland (LPD 7) is scheduled to return to its homeport of San Diego Aug. 4, completing a five-month deployment to the South Pacific as the lead vessel in Pacific Partnership 2011.
Cleveland embarked more than 300 personnel from all branches of the U.S. armed forces, the State Department, multiple partner nations and non-government organizations with specialists from the medical, dental, engineering, veterinarian and other fields. The Pacific Partnership team saw 38,696 medical and dental patients, distributed 21,232 pairs of eye glasses, and treated 933 animals.