U.S navy sailors from the USS Mustin distributed gifts to poor Cambodians

By Khmerizarion
Source: DAP News

The crews and sailors from the U.S destroyer, USS Mustin commanded by a Cambodian-born commander, Commodore Michael Vannak Khem Misiewicz which docked at Sihanoukville Seaport on Friday, have begun helping the locals by distributing education gifts to orphans and performing a concert for the locals at 7 p.m on Saturday night.

Besides performing humanitarian tasks, the sailors aboard the ship also met and played sports with members of the Cambodian navy. Commodore Misiewicz had also met his Cambodian counterpart Commodore Hang Morn, the commander of the Cambodian Navy based at Sihanoukville.

Commodore Misiewicz, whose birth name is Vannak Khem, was born in 1967 in rural area just outside Phnom Penh. He was adopted by an American woman and taken to America in 1973, aged 6 years old. This is the first time he had set foot on Cambodian soil since he left the Southeast Asian nation as a boy 37 years ago, escaping civil war and the murderous Khmer Rouge.

Commodore Misiewicz (L) met with Commodore Hang Morn (top) and below, Ambassador Carol Rodley distributing gifts to the locals.

Below: the U.S sailors performing concert for the locals and doing other humanitarian works.