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    African sailors learn combat lifesaver skills aboard Gunston Hall

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    African sailors learn combat lifesaver skills aboard Gunston Hall

    Petty Officer 1st Class Jason Ashmeade, center, a hospital corpsman from Long Island, N.Y., and instructor for Africa Partnership Station West, embarked aboard the Whidbey Island-class amphibious dock-landing ship USS Gunston Hall (LSD 44), demonstrates to service members of the Senegalese, Liberian, Sierra Leone, The Gambian and Equatorial Guinean armed forces, the proper procedures for applying a tourniquet in a combat environment, using a cravat during a combat lifesaver course. Gunston Hall is on a scheduled deployment in West Africa in support of APS West, an international initiative developed by U.S. Naval Forces Europe-Africa that aims to improve maritime safety and security in Africa.

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    Date Taken: 04.16.2010
    Date Posted: 04.20.2010 11:43
    Photo ID: 271408
    VIRIN: 100416-N-6676S-002
    Resolution: 2100x1107
    Size: 659.36 KB
    Location: DAKAR, SN

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