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U.S. Navy Cmdr. Sandra Hearn inspects a patient's throat at the Youth Dental Foundation in Paramaribo, Suriname, on Oct. 3, 2007. Hearn is a pediatric nurse embarked aboard the hospital ship USNS Comfort (T-AH 20). Comfort is on a four-month humanitarian deployment to Latin America and the Caribbean providing medical treatment to patients in a dozen countries.

Cmdr. Sandra Hearn inspects a patient's throat.

U.S. Navy Cmdr. Sandra Hearn inspects a patient's throat at the Youth Dental Foundation in Paramaribo, Suriname, on Oct. 3, 2007. Hearn is a pediatric nurse embarked aboard the hospital ship USNS Comfort (T-AH 20). Comfort is on a four-month humanitarian deployment to Latin America and the Caribbean providing medical treatment to patients in a dozen countries.

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