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U.S. Navy Ensign Marshall Trudell and Mexican navy Lt. Fernando Montiel assist a patient after his surgery aboard the Military Sealift Command hospital ship USNS Comfort in Manta, Ecuador, May 19, 2011. Trudell is a neonatal intensive care doctor and Montiel is a nurse from Vera Cruz, Mexico.

U.S. Navy Ensign Marshall Trudell and Mexican navy Lt. Fernando Montiel assist a patient after his surgery aboard the Military Sealift Command hospital ship USNS Comfort in Manta, Ecuador, May 19, 2011. Trudell is a neonatal intensive care doctor and Montiel is a nurse from Vera Cruz, Mexico.

U.S. Navy Ensign Marshall Trudell and Mexican navy Lt. Fernando Montiel assist a patient after his surgery aboard the Military Sealift Command hospital ship USNS Comfort in Manta, Ecuador, May 19, 2011. Trudell is a neonatal intensive care doctor and Montiel is a nurse from Vera Cruz, Mexico.

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