STAFF Sergeant Brent Oland, 18th Delta Special Forces Medic, Fort Campbell, Kentucky, cuts into a local Kazakh man's foot during Operation BALANCE KAYAK held in Kazakhstan. The man injured his foot while mashing concrete by foot and now has a foreign object embeded in it. BALANCE KAYAK, which ran from Sept. 12-21, is a medical capabilities exercise for US and Kazakhstan, which provided various facets of medical treatment to 12 villages by screening patients and providing training to increase Kazakhstan's medical capabilities. Services offered were obstetrics and gynecology, orthopedics and general medicine, with a fully equipped mobile pharmacy. All equipment used was provided by the...

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[Complete] Scene Caption: STAFF Sergeant Brent Oland, 18th Delta Special Forces Medic, Fort Campbell, Kentucky, cuts into a local Kazakh man's foot during Operation BALANCE KAYAK held in Kazakhstan. The man injured his foot while mashing concrete by foot and now has a foreign object embeded in it. BALANCE KAYAK, which ran from Sept. 12-21, is a medical capabilities exercise for US and Kazakhstan, which provided various facets of medical treatment to 12 villages by screening patients and providing training to increase Kazakhstan's medical capabilities. Services offered were obstetrics and gynecology, orthopedics and general medicine, with a fully equipped mobile pharmacy. All equipment used was provided by the host nation.

Subject Operation/Series: BALANCE KAYAK

Base: Ili Base Camp, Almaty

Country: Kazakhstan (KAZ)

Scene Major Command Shown: US CENTCOM

Scene Camera Operator: SSGT Jeremy T. Lock, USAF

Release Status: Released to Public
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