Healing bodies, winning hearts and minds
U.S. Army Spc. Tyler Novich, Joint Task Force-Bravo Medical Element dental specialist, reaches for a utensil to aid a dentist in extracting a patient’s tooth during a medical readiness training exercise, or MEDRETE, in the village of Bacadilla, Olancho district, Honduras, Sept. 23, 2016. During the two-day MEDRETE, the dental team treated 119 patients.