190712-A-DS579-0014 RIOHACHA, Colombia (July 12, 2019)

190712-A-DS579-0014 RIOHACHA, Colombia (July 12, 2019) – Lt. Cmdr. Kelly Peng, from U.S. Naval Hospital Naples, Italy, leads a medical class for Colombian military, police and civil defense personnel, as part of Southern Partnership Station (SPS) 2019. SPS is an annual series of U.S. Navy deployments focused on exchanges with regional partner nation militaries and security forces. SPS 19 consists of fly-away deployments of adaptive force packages to Barbados, Colombia, Guatemala, Honduras and Peru to conduct training and subject matter expert exchanges to improve capacity in medical, dive operations, engineering, and explosive ordnance disposal. (U.S. Army Photo by Spc. Austin Carrillo/Released)