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- It is an opportunity for our
two armies to work together.

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Share experience through medical duty.

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- We've had a really good relationship

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with the Senegalese Army.

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The provider staff, the nursing staff,

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and the whole hospital staff

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have been more than
welcoming of our presence.

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- We were happy to
receive the American team

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in our hospital and in our unit.

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- Even with the language
barrier we seem to make it work

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and have hit it off,

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kind of building relationships with them.

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So it's been, it's been a pleasure.

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- [Capt. Scott Pearson] It's
important to us to learn how to

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do the things that we need
to do without the resources

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that we are accustomed to.

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But they're willing to show us
the way they do things here,

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and their ability to show
us how and why they do it,

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and add that to our
already known understanding

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of how to do these
procedures is only going

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to improve our ability
to adapt in environments

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that we find ourselves in the future.

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- Working with the surgeons,

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working with, just all of the staff

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has been really welcoming
and they kind of teach me

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their ways without me even asking.

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- It's very important for us,

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for our nurse and I,
and as all the doctors

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to see what level of
medical capacity we have.

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We must be, move there.

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- So when you have our
soldiers, our surgeons,

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and our nurses, have the
opportunity to interact.

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Not only work side by side with

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their counterpart here in Senegal,

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but also have the opportunity
to really interact

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with the local populations.

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- To improve my practice back home,

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but it's also important for
me to see this kind of stuff

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before heading downrange.

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- You get what you put in.

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So, volunteer for stuff.

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- To allow that person to
assist in an operating room

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really reflects highly on how
warm and friendly they are.

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- At the same time you're
building personal a relationship,

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but also spread the good will

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to the general population here in Senegal.

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- If we were deployed
together in a Role 2 hospital

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or operate together in a deployed setting

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we could totally do that.

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- I would definitely
love to come back here

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and see if they've grown, and
see the same people again,

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I hope, 'cuz we've definitely built some

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cool relationships here with
the people that we work with,

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and you know, something I'll never forget.

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