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Residents of Silencio, Costa Rica, wave to a helicopter carrying members of the New Mexico Army National Guard Medical Detachment and Air Force South, which provided a full day of health-care services, April 23, 2009. A Costa Rican dental team, pharmacy technicians, internal medicine doctors and preventive health specialists participated in the event. This was the first time the National Guard's State Partnership Program has been used in a disaster relief exercise in a foreign country.

COSTA RICA WAVE

Residents of Silencio, Costa Rica, wave to a helicopter carrying members of the New Mexico Army National Guard Medical Detachment and Air Force South, which provided a full day of health-care services, April 23, 2009. A Costa Rican dental team, pharmacy technicians, internal medicine doctors and preventive health specialists participated in the event. This was the first time the National Guard's State Partnership Program has been used in a disaster relief exercise in a foreign country.

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