Photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Laurie Dexter | U.S. Navy | 06.18.2012
Hospitalman Kervin Lacson listens to the heartbeat of a potential surgery recipient at the Calbayog Sports Complex during a surgical civic action program. The program screens patients to determine their suitability for having surgery aboard the Military Sealift Command hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH 19) during Pacific Partnership 2012. Now in its seventh year, Pacific Partnership is an annual......
Photo by Sgt. 1st Class Alejandro Licea | Special Operations Command South | 04.28.2012
A Colombian soldier keeps an eye on his area while providing security along the river in La Macarena, Colombia. Members of the Colombian military provided security during the two-day Surgical Civic Action Program April 27-28 in the small town, located 170 miles south of Bogota. In an effort to assist its citizens living in the nation’s remote towns, the Colombian military organized this......
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....
Photo by Sgt. 1st Class Alejandro Licea | Special Operations Command South | 04.27.2012
Colombian military members and U.S. Army Civil Affairs soldiers assigned to Company B, 98th Battalion, 95th CA Brigade (Airborne), unload two tons of medical supplies and equipment off a Colombian military cargo plane in preparation for a two-day Surgical Civic Action Program, April 27-28, in the small town of La Macarena, Colombia, located 170 miles south of Bogota. The SURGCAP, which was......
