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U.S. Navy Hospital Corpsman Taylor Simpkins (left) removes stitches from a man's head as an Indonesian soldier holds a flashlight at the Global Rescue Network's mobile hospital in Jetis, Indonesia, on June 3, 2006. The man received injuries when the ceiling of his home collapsed during a magnitude-6.2 earthquake that devastated central Indonesia on May 27, 2006.

U.S. Navy Hospital Corpsman Taylor Simpkins removes stitches from a man's head.

U.S. Navy Hospital Corpsman Taylor Simpkins (left) removes stitches from a man's head as an Indonesian soldier holds a flashlight at the Global Rescue Network's mobile hospital in Jetis, Indonesia, on June 3, 2006. The man received injuries when the ceiling of his home collapsed during a magnitude-6.2 earthquake that devastated central Indonesia on May 27, 2006.

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