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U.S. Navy Hospital Corpsman Erica Velazquez explains the proper use of vitamins and oral hygiene to a Beninese woman during a medical and dental services mission in Wanrarou, Benin, June 13, 2009. The mission is part of the exercise Shared Accord, a combined U.S.-Beninese military training exercise with humanitarian projects scheduled to run concurrently. U.S. airmen from the 459th Expeditionary Aeromedical Squadron and sailors from the 4th Dental Battalion participated.

SHARED ACCORD

U.S. Navy Hospital Corpsman Erica Velazquez explains the proper use of vitamins and oral hygiene to a Beninese woman during a medical and dental services mission in Wanrarou, Benin, June 13, 2009. The mission is part of the exercise Shared Accord, a combined U.S.-Beninese military training exercise with humanitarian projects scheduled to run concurrently. U.S. airmen from the 459th Expeditionary Aeromedical Squadron and sailors from the 4th Dental Battalion participated.

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