Tools and local anesthetic are prepared for use during a dental civic action program mission in Ali Sabieh, Djibouti, Feb. 10, 2016. The 403rd Civil Affairs Battalion, deployed in support of Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa, worked alongside Djibouti Ministry of Health personnel to provide dental care to villagers. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Dan DeCook)
Capt. Bryan Hays, 403rd Civil Affair Battalion Dental Cell Officer in Charge, and Staff Sgt. Nakisha Susberry, 403rd CA BN Dental Cell NCO in charge, work on extracting a tooth during a dental civic action program mission in Ali Sabieh, Djibouti, Feb. 10, 2016. Members of the Djibouti Ministry of Health and the 403 CA BN provided more than 10 hours of dental assistance to the local villagers. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Dan DeCook)
A tooth removed during a dental civic action program mission lays on a table in Ali Sabieh, Djibouti, Feb. 10, 2016. Members of the Djibouti Ministry of Health and the 403 CA BN removed more than 50 infected teeth during two days of dental assistance to the local villagers. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Dan DeCook)
Capt. Bryan Hays, 403rd Civil Affairs Battalion Dental Cell Office in Charge, inspects the molar of a local woman in Ali Sabieh, Djibouti, Feb. 10, 2016. Members of the Djibouti Ministry of Health and the 403 CA BN provided more than 10 hours of dental assistance to the local villagers. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Dan DeCook)
Capt. Bryan Hays, 403rd Civil Affair Battalion Dental Cell Officer in Charge, examines the teeth of a Djiboutian child in Ali Sabieh, Djibouti, Feb. 10, 2016. The dental civic action program was part of U.S. Africa Command’s humanitarian civil assistance program, which aims to provide emergency dental procedures as well as basic extractions and dental education. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Dan DeCook)
Army Civil Affairs provides dental care, education to local village
2/13/2016
The 403rd Civil Affairs Battalion, deployed in support of Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa, worked alongside Djibouti Ministry of Health personnel to provide dental care to villagers and share dental education in Ali Sabieh, Djibouti,
Feb. 9-10, 2016.
Funded by U.S. Africa Command’s humanitarian civil assistance program, the dental civic action program(DENTCAP), aims to provide emergency dental procedures, basic extractions and dental education.
Sgt. 1st Class Melissa Ferris, 403rd Civil Affairs Battalion Delta Company senior medic, delivers medical attention to a man who has injured in a multi-vehicle accident in Djibouti, Feb. 10, 2016. Ferris is an Army Reservist and a 11-year veteran of the Syracuse New York police department. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Dan DeCook)
U.S. Army Reserves Sgt. 1st Class Cynthia Price, 403rd Civil Affairs Battalion Delta Company team sgt., and Ivyland Pennyslvania volunteer firefighterposes for a photo in Ivyland, Pennsylvania. (Courtesy photo)
U.S. Army Reserves Sgt. 1st Class Melissa Ferris, 403rd Civil Affairs Battalion Delta Company senior medic and 21-year Syracuse police officer, poses for a photo in Syracuse, New York. (Courtesy photo)
Sgts. 1st Class Melissa Ferris, 403rd Civil Affairs Battalion Delta Company senior medic, and Cynthia Price, team sgt., load a victim into an ambulance at the scene of a multi-vehicle accident in Djibouti, Feb. 10, 2016. Ferris is a Syracuse New York police officer and Price is a volunteer firefighter in Ivyland, Pennsylvania. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Dan DeCook)
Sgts. 1st Class Melissa Ferris, 403rd Civil Affairs Battalion Delta Company senior medic, and Cynthia Price, team sgt., load a victim into an ambulance at the scene of a multi-vehicle accident in Djibouti, Feb. 10, 2016. Ferris is an Army Reservist and a Syracuse, New York police officer. Price, also a Reservist, is from Ivyland, Pennsylvania where she is a volunteer firefighter. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Dan DeCook)
Sgts. 1st Class Melissa Ferris, 403rd Civil Affairs Battalion Delta Company senior medic, and Cynthia Price, team sgt., provide a victim emergency medical treatment at the scene of a multi-vehicle accident in Djibouti, Feb. 10, 2016. Ferris is a Syracuse, New York police officer and Price is a volunteer firefighter in Ivyland, Pennsylvania. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Dan DeCook)
Sgts. 1st Class Melissa Ferris, 403rd Civil Affairs Battalion Delta Company senior medic, and Cynthia Price, team sgt., provide a victim emergency medical treatment at the scene of a multi-vehicle accident in Djibouti, Feb. 10, 2016. The civil affairs team were en route to a remote village near the Somali border to provide basic dental care to local villagers when the team cam upon the vehicle accident. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Dan DeCook)
Sgts. 1st Class Melissa Ferris, 403rd Civil Affairs Battalion Delta Company senior medic, and Cynthia Price, team sgt., provide a victim emergency medical treatment at the scene of a multi-vehicle accident in Djibouti, Feb. 10, 2016. Ferris is an Army Reservist and a Syracuse, New York police officer. Price, also a Reservist, is from Ivyland, Pennsylvania where she is a volunteer firefighter. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Dan DeCook)
En route to pull teeth, Army Civil Affairs members pull man from tractor-trailer crash
2/12/2016
On a busy two-way road packed with motorists about an hour south of Djibouti City, four 18-wheelers sat smashed together, their cabs crushed like soda cans in a recycle bin. Shattered glass covered the streets, and the screams of a trapped man filled the air.
Before coming face-to-face with this tragic accident, members from the 403rd Civil Affairs Battalion, assigned to the Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa, were en route to Ali Adde, a remote village not far from the Somali border, for a dental civic action program mission to provide basic dental care to local villagers, Feb. 10, 2016.
U.S., Sudan and Denmark Navy members follow the progression of scenarios from the exercise control group during Cutlass Express 2016 at the Port of Djibouti, Feb. 4, 2016. Exercise Cutlass Express provides an opportunity for maritime forces from eastern African, western Indian Ocean island nations, Europe, and the U.S. to work side-by-side to better synchronize maritime security operations for potential real-world scenarios.
Kenya Defense Force members command crewmembers to their knees after finding a simulated illegal weapons stash as part of the 2016 Cutlass Express exercise near the Port of Djibouti, Feb. 2, 2016. Cutlass Express is a U.S. Africa Command-sponsored multinational maritime exercise designed to increase maritime safety and security in the waters off East Africa, western Indian Ocean, and in the Gulf of Aden.
A Djibouti Marine searches a vessel suspected of illicit activity during a visit, board, search and seizure scenario as part of the 2016 Cutlass Express exercise near the Port of Djibouti, Feb. 3, 2016. The goal of the exercise was to strengthen regional cooperation and help address challenges that no single nation is capable of tackling alone.
U.S. Navy Hospital Corpsman First Class Aaron Clifford, Cutlass Express medical instructor, explains how to treat a sucking chest wound on a simulated patient to Djibouti Coast Guardsmen and Marines during classroom instruction for exercise Cutlass Express Jan. 31, 2016, at the Djiboutian Coast Guard Academy, Djibouti. Exercise participants conducted a number of maritime security operations to include vessel queries, ship boarding, airborne maritime patrol operations, and search and rescue drills.
Participants from Sudan, Rwanda, Kenya, and Djibouti stand in formation during the opening ceremony of exercise Cutlass Express 2016 at the Djibouti Navy Base, Djibouti, Feb. 1, 2016. More than 450 personnel from 18 countries coordinated at two locations for the fifth iteration of the maritime exercise. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Victoria Sneed)
