Learning the ropes

SOTO CANO AB, Honduras ? Medical Element personnel assigned at Joint Task Force-Bravo here, observe 1st Sgt. Carl Peterson, MEDEL first sergeant, unbuckles the deployable rapid assembly shelter while instructing MEDEL personnel how to set up a DRASH tent during an equipment familiarization exercise Jan. 6. (Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Bryan Franks)

DRASH lift

SOTO CANO AB, Honduras ? Medical Element personnel assigned at Joint Task Force-Bravo here, lift the deployable rapid assembly shelter during an equipment familiarization exercise Jan. 6. The training was done to familiarize new personnel who recently arrived with MEDEL?s equipment and as a teambuilding exercise. (Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Bryan Franks)

Preparing the medicine

1st Lt. Mario Torres, a MEDEL admin officer, Capt. Katie Whitehurst, the officer-in-charge of preventive medicine, and Staff Sgt. Kevin Cook, a MEDEL food inspector, prepare medicine kits for patients during the medical readiness and training exercise in El Codo Dec. 9, 2011. Twenty-two members from Joint Task Force-Bravo provided medical care to more than 1,400 residents Dec. 8-13 in an isolated region of southwest Guatemala. In fiscal year 2011, JTF-Bravo medical members conducted 15 MEDRETES treating more than 41,000 patients throughout Central America. (U.S. Air Force photo/Capt. Candice Allen)

Airmen sing holiday carols to Honduran children

SOTO CANO AIR BASE, Honduras - Soto Cano's fire department employee, Herbert Gaekel, hosted a holiday party for more than 200 local children and their families from the villages outside Comayagua, Honduras Dec. 3, 2011. Members of the 612th Air Base Squadron here donated toys and staffed the gift stations at the party. Lt. Col. Eric Moses, commander of the 612th ABS, along with other members of the squadron sang Christmas carols to attendees. (U.S. Air Force photo/Lt. Col. Lloyd Malone)

Providing assistance

Maj. David Dennison, a Joint Task Force-Bravo Medical Element general dentist, pulls a tooth of a Honduran man during a Medical Readiness Training Exercise Nov. 29, 2011, at a school in Choluteca, Honduras. By the end of the two-day mission, the U.S. and Honduran medical staff combined achievements included the assistance of nearly 150 dental patients, the filling of more than 2000 pharmacy prescriptions, and the education of over 1,100 people in preventative medicine. (U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. Matthew McGovern)

Providing assistance

Honduran Army personnel and Joint Task Force-Bravo Medical personnel unload medical supplies during a Medical Readiness Training Exercise Nov. 29, 2011, at a school in Choluteca, Honduras. More than 20 medical personnel from JTF-Bravo along with their Honduran partners, back rounding in various medical fields, military members, Boy Scouts, and the Honduran Ministry of Health, provided general medical care to over 2,800 flood victims. (U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. Matthew McGovern)