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By SSgt Tiffany DeNault
CJTF-HOA/PAO

kenya, September 30, 2016

KENYA- U.S. Navy Chief Petty Officer Ryan Waller, Task Force Sparta explosive ordnance disposal technician and Deliberate Kindle instructor, shows Kenyan Defense Force soldiers and officers how to properly use a tourniquet during tactical combat medical training, Sept. 14, 2016, at a Kenyan training center. Deliberate Kindle is a four-week Humanitarian Mine Action course designed to provide training in countering improvised explosive devices and unexploded ordnance, train-the-trainer, and medical training to approximately 53 KDF soldiers in preparation for future deployments with the African Union Mission in Somalia. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Tiffany DeNault)

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KENYA- U.S. Navy Chief Petty Officer Ryan Waller, Task Force Sparta explosive ordnance disposal technician and Deliberate Kindle instructor, explains the final portion of the tactical combat medical training to Kenyan Defense Force combat engineers during Deliberate Kindle 2016, Sept. 15, at a Kenyan training facility. The medical training was just one portion of the four-week course designed to give Humanitarian Mine Action training to course attendees, so as to prepare them for future deployments with the African Union Mission in Somalia. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Tiffany DeNault)

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