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U.S. Navy Petty Officer Erica Velazquez (right) explains the proper usage of vitamins and oral hygiene to a Beninese woman during a medical and dental services mission in Wanrarou, Benin, on June 13, 2009. The mission is being conducted as part of the exercise Shared Accord, which is 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 are conducting the mission.

Petty Officer Erica Velazquez explains the proper usage of vitamins and oral hygiene to a Beninese woman.

U.S. Navy Petty Officer Erica Velazquez (right) explains the proper usage of vitamins and oral hygiene to a Beninese woman during a medical and dental services mission in Wanrarou, Benin, on June 13, 2009. The mission is being conducted as part of the exercise Shared Accord, which is 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 are conducting the mission.

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