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Gift of Comfort

Navy Lt. Cmdr. Julia Sugitan, assigned to the USNS Comfort, gives a young patient a toy following a tooth extraction in Colon, Panama, Aug. 11, 2019. The Comfort is on a humanitarian mission, working with health and government partners in Central America, South America and the Caribbean.

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