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Petty Officer 1st Class Jason Ashmeade, center, a hospital corpsman from Long Island, N.Y., and instructor for Africa Partnership Station West, embarked aboard the Whidbey Island-class amphibious dock-landing ship USS Gunston Hall (LSD 44), demonstrates to service members of the Senegalese, Liberian, Sierra Leone, The Gambian and Equatorial Guinean armed forces, the proper procedures for applying a tourniquet in a combat environment, using a cravat during a combat lifesaver course. Gunston Hall is on a scheduled deployment in West Africa in support of APS West, an international initiative developed by U.S. Naval Forces Europe-Africa that aims to improve maritime safety and security in Africa.
| Date Taken: | 04.16.2010 |
| Date Posted: | 04.20.2010 11:43 |
| Photo ID: | 271408 |
| VIRIN: | 100416-N-6676S-002 |
| Resolution: | 2100x1107 |
| Size: | 659.36 KB |
| Location: | DAKAR, SN |
| Web Views: | 54 |
| Downloads: | 6 |
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