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Around 450 Honduran people were seen

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and treated at a medical readiness

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exercise during beyond the horizon .

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2012 in Honduras , the town of

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cordero's in the mountains of Northern

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Honduras hosted this event at a school

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task force Tropic is made up of

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soldiers from several nations .

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Soldiers from Honduras , the United

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States , Colombia and Canada worked

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jointly to aid the people here .

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Canadian forces Medical officer ,

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Lieutenant Commander Debbie pastel

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spoke about this exercise . Well ,

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there's two main goals and the first

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one is to to work together

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as nations so that if we ever had to

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quickly deploy together , we've already

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had that experience with

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interoperability and uh logistics and

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tactics and and time and getting

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everybody schooled up and working

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together . And the second goal is to

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bring um some needed health care , much

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needed health care into the poor

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villages and towns of Honduras and

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Guatemala in cooperation with their

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governments . The numbers are quite

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staggering . We're seeing 350 to 400

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patients a day . Dental medical

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obstetrics and gynecology , some

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immunizations , President of medicine .

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Um And it's been uh the numbers in the

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heat I think are the biggest challenge .

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But I think we were prepared for what

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we were seeing these exercises allow

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nations to train together as well as

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extend a helping hand to our central

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american neighbors . During beyond the

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horizon , 2012 , reporting from

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cordero's Honduras for U . S . Army

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South . I'm staff sergeant Christopher

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Robertson