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(patriotic music)

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- [Voiceover] Marines and Sailors with 4th Medical

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Battalion and 4th Dental Battalion,

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4th Marine Logistics Group participated in

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Innovative Readiness Training Tropic Care 2016

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in Kauai, Hawaii June 20th through the 30th.

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^- Tropic Care 2016 is an Air Force led mission

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^that includes members from Air Force, Air National Guard

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and Marine Corps units.

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We also have an active-duty Navy component which is

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responsible for fabricating glasses.

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The mission here is to provide healthcare

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to the under-served population on Kauai.

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Primary services that we offer are

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medical, dental, and optometry,

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primarily procedures

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that the residents of Kauai may not have access to

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on a routine basis.

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^- I feel like education is

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^gonna be the biggest need here, educating them,

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not just dentally but medically

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and kind of just spreading the word.

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- [Voiceover] While the exercise provided local

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residents with free healthcare,

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it also gave the Marines and sailors hands-on training.

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^- A lot of people here are just rural

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^and live in poverty so we seek to help any of those in need.

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I'm currently a student at the University of Georgia.

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I'm dual-majoring in Biology and Psychology.

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In the end, I hope to be a neurologist.

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I've been asking a lot of the personnel here

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to get training with vitals, medical side, and dental

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and they've been letting me get a chance

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to observe a round, see how it's done,

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and I've actually been able to work on some patients.

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And just getting the hands-on opportunity to

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work with some diverse culture, it really does benefit.

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- The people are just the most grateful,

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most thankful, Mahalo is the term I hear

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probably 10 times a day,

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and it's just, it's really humbling, let's put it that way.

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And it just makes me very proud that

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I made it out here.

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- [Voiceover] Reporting from Hawaii,

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I'm Sergeant Ian Leoles.