Marine translators bridge gap for doctors, Continuing Promise [Image 2 of 6]

BLUEFIELDS, NICARAGUA

09.17.2010

Photo by Cpl. Alicia Leaders 

U.S. Marine Corps Forces, South

Navy Cmdr. Lana R. Rowell, native of Minot, N.D., and certified anesthetist registered nurse, and Lance Cpl. Nubia Z. Leon-Lozano, native of Carson City, Nev., and field operator with Marine Air Control Squadron 2, Command Element of Special-Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force Continuing Promise 2010, check on a 13-year-old Nicaraguan child during her umbilical hernia repair operation aboard the USS Iwo Jima, Sept. 17, 2010. Leon-Lozano served as a Spanish translator for shipboard surgeries. Marines and sailors of CP10 worked together to support surgical operations off the coast of Bluefields, Nicaragua. CP10 is a humanitarian civic assistance mission, where USS Iwo Jima personnel is providing medical, dental, veterinary, engineering support and disaster relief efforts to the Caribbean, Central and South America.

• Date Taken: 09.17.2010
• Date Posted: 09.27.2010 18:17
• Photo ID: 323757
• VIRIN: 100917-M-9206G-079
• Resolution: 1400x2100
• Size: 1.45 MB
• Location: BLUEFIELDS, NI