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U.S. Navy Lt. Cmdr. David Foster, assigned to Naval Hospital Yokosuka and embarked aboard the USS Blue Ridge, checks a patient's ears at a free medical clinic during a Pacific Partnership 2010 medical civic action program in Koror, Palau, July 27, 2010.

U.S. Navy Lt. Cmdr. David Foster, assigned to Naval Hospital Yokosuka and embarked aboard the USS Blue Ridge, checks a patient's ears at a free medical clinic during a Pacific Partnership 2010 medical civic action program in Koror, Palau, July 27, 2010.

U.S. Navy Lt. Cmdr. David Foster, assigned to Naval Hospital Yokosuka and embarked aboard the USS Blue Ridge, checks a patient's ears at a free medical clinic during a Pacific Partnership 2010 medical civic action program in Koror, Palau, July 27, 2010.

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