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U.S. Marines and Sailors with 1st Dental Battalion prepare for a Suicide Prevention and Awareness walk on Sept. 29, 2017. Join us at Paige Field House at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton.

Reservists with 4th Marine Logistics Group and service members with the Air National Guard began setting up for Innovative Readiness Training Louisiana Care 2017. Community members will have the opportunity to receive medical, dental and optometry services starting July 12 and ending July 21.

Reservists with 4th Marine Logistics Group and service members with the Air National Guard began setting up for Innovative Readiness Training Louisiana Care 2017. Community members will have the opportunity to receive medical, dental and optometry services starting July 12 and ending July 21.

U.S. Marines, sailors and Department of Defense employees participated in a Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Walk on Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, Calif., Apr. 28, 2017. The SAPR Walk was held to increase sexual assault awareness and encourage those that have been affected to reach out to the available resources. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Sgt. Alvin Pujols/Released)

Petty Officer 1st Class Nicholas Paris is a dental technician with 1st Dental Battalion, 1st Marine Logistics Group. Paris talks about how he won Senior Sailor of the Year for the 1st Marine Logistics Group.

Petty Officer 2nd Class Jorge Barajas, a dental technician with 1st Dental Battalion, 1st Marine Logistics Group talks about how he received the DN Thomas A. Christensen Award. The award is named in honor of Thomas A. Christensen Jr., who, during the Battle of Chosen Reservoir in Korea, was attached to an Amphibious Tractor Battalion that came under attack by Chinese Communists. During the battle, he rushed forward numerous times to rescue the wounded and offer first aid. Wounded himself, he continued to offer aid until he was mortally wounded at point blank range. For his actions, he was posthumously awarded the Navy Cross. He was the first dental technician in history to be awarded the Navy Cross. This award is given annually to a deserving enlisted hospital corpsman who deployed with a dental battalion in the Fleet Marine Force and was recognized by their seniors, subordinates and peers to be deserving of the award.

Needles and medical gauze are laid in a neat, fashioned order on a table as sailors from 2nd Dental Battalion, 2nd Marine Logistics Group prepare for an arduous, long day in the field as part of the Authorized Dental Allowance List exercise at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, March 7, 2017. The exercise consisted of sailors performing dental exams, dental operations and sterilizing equipment in a field environment where supplies are limited and the environment is chaotic.