FOXBORO -- Globe trotting is part of Jacqueline Nally's profile, but her trips rarely involve luxuries like sipping drinks under a tropical sky or soaking up the sun on a Mediterranean beach.

Nally, a long-time emergency room nurse and disaster response volunteer, was one of dozens of civilian doctors and nurses who boarded the Navy hospital ship Mercy last January and traveled to Banda Aceh, Indonesia, to help care for victims of the South Asian tsunamis that killed more than 100,000 people.

The effort came under the auspices of Project Hope, a nonprofit organization that brings medical care to regions of the world where doctors and medicines are all but nonexistent.

A member of a Federal Emergency Management Administration disaster response team for the past 15 years, Nally, a mother of two has also served in mercy missions from the Gulf Coast to Iran.

`` As much as our help was needed, I think the members of our team got as much out of it as our patients,'' said Nally, who said bringing help to thousands of patients whose families had lost virtually everything they had was `` very rewarding.'' Nally, who worked at Massachusetts General Hospital for 2 1/2 years as an administrator for four separate disaster teams, was tapped by the federal government last January following the Indonesian earthquake to help organize an international team of doctors and nurses to work directly with the Navy aboard the Mercy.

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