Photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Tyrell Morris | Commander, Logistics Group Western Pacific | 05.14.2019
190514-N-NB178-1016 TUY HOA, Vietnam (May 14, 2019) U.S. Navy Lt. Cmdr. Thomas Avallone works side-by-side with Vietnamese medical professionals to perform cataract surgery, fostering multinational partnerships during Pacific Partnership 2019. Pacific Partnership, now in its 14th iteration, is the largest annual multinational humanitarian assistance and disaster relief preparedness mission......
Photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Tyrell Morris | Commander, Logistics Group Western Pacific | 05.14.2019
190514-N-NB178-1004 TUY HOA, Vietnam (May 14, 2019) U.S. Navy Lt. Cmdr. Thomas Avallone works side-by-side with Vietnamese medical professionals to perform cataract surgery, fostering multinational partnerships during Pacific Partnership 2019. Pacific Partnership, now in its 14th iteration, is the largest annual multinational humanitarian assistance and disaster relief preparedness mission......
Photo by Senior Airman Derek Seifert | Air Forces Southern | 05.06.2019
U.S. service members observe a cataract surgery during New Horizons exercise 2019 at Port Mourant, Guyana, May 6, 2019. The ophthalmology clinic was established to provide aid to the Guyanese population by screening and selecting patients to receive cataract surgery in support of New Horizons 2019. The New Horizons exercise 2019 provides U.S. military members an opportunity to train for an......
Photo by Maria Pinel | Joint Task Force Bravo | 12.10.2018
A Honduran patient receives cataract surgery from US military medical personnel aboard the USNS Comfort in Colon, Honduras, Dec. 10, 2018. The ship’s medical personnel provided care for 5,475 patients including 159 surgeries, 3,338 medical patients, 1, 426 optometry patients and 711 dental patients. (U.S. Army photo illustration by Maria Pinel)...
Photo by Staff Sgt. Benjamin Smith | Minot Air Force Base | 02.16.2014
A patient is finally at the end of a long awaited surgery to remove cataracts which caused complete blindness in both eyes. Military Surgeons operated on 275 patients in the Varaguas Province of Panama as part of New Horizons 2018....
Photo by Staff Sgt. Benjamin Smith | Minot Air Force Base | 02.16.2014
A U.S. Air Force surgeon removes a cataract from a patients eye in the Varaguas province of Panama during training exercise New Horizons 2018....
Photo by Staff Sgt. Benjamin Smith | Minot Air Force Base | 02.13.2014
The Command Team for the 346th Air Expeditionary Wing visits a hospital in the Varaguas Province of Panama where U.S. Military Surgeons carried out more than 270 surgeries to cure blindness in Panamanian patients as part of New Horizons 2018....
Photo by Sgt. 1st Class Alejandro Licea | Special Operations Command South | 04.27.2012
Dr. Catalina del Portillo, a volunteer ophthalmologist, prepares to conduct eye surgery on a person suffering from cataracts as part of a two-day Surgical Civic Action Program April 27-28 in the small town of La Macarena, Colombia, located 170 miles southeast of Bogota. Cataracts are an eye disease in which the clear lens of the eye becomes cloudy opaque, causing a decrease in vision....
