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U.S. Navy Lt. Cmdr. Joseph Fitzpatrick, left, a surgeon assigned to a Forward Resuscitive Surgical System unit, and U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Tony Hayden, an aerial porter from the Kentucky Air National Guard’s 123rd Contingency Response Group, secure cases of red blood cells and frozen plasma to a C-130 cargo pallet at Leopold Sedar Senghor International Airport in Dakar, Senegal, Oct. 10, 2014.

U.S. Navy Lt. Cmdr. Joseph Fitzpatrick, left, a surgeon assigned to a Forward Resuscitive Surgical System unit, and U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Tony Hayden, an aerial porter from the Kentucky Air National Guard’s 123rd Contingency Response Group, secure cases of red blood cells and frozen plasma to a C-130 cargo pallet at Leopold Sedar Senghor International Airport in Dakar, Senegal, Oct. 10, 2014.

U.S. Navy Lt. Cmdr. Joseph Fitzpatrick, left, a surgeon assigned to a Forward Resuscitive Surgical System unit, and U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Tony Hayden, an aerial porter from the Kentucky Air National Guard’s 123rd Contingency Response Group, secure cases of red blood cells and frozen plasma to a C-130 cargo pallet at Leopold Sedar Senghor International Airport in Dakar, Senegal, Oct. 10, 2014.

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