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Two doctors in scrubs operate on either side of a patient, illuminated by soft light, as two others stand by.

Medical Mission

Sailors and Guatemalan doctors perform umbilical hernia surgery on a patient at a hospital in Puerto Barrios, Guatemala, April 6, 2018, during Continuing Promise 2018, a U.S. Southern Command training mission. Army photo by Spc. Brandon Best

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