Villages in Alaska Receive Medical Attn.

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Recently the Army, Navy and Air Force organized and participated in a wide ranging Medical Outreach program for numerous small villages in Alaska.

Teams of Army, Navy and Air Force health-care providers spent a week treating hundreds of medically-underserved people as part of Operation Arctic Care 2008 in six remote villages in March in Alaska.

Residents of Karluk, Old Harbor, Ouzinkie, Port Lions, Akhiok and Larsen Bay invited the servicemembers to their schools and to use their clinics to conduct free eye exams and dental cleanings as Army veterinarians traveled house to house vaccinating animals.

Read the rest of this story - a great cross-branch effort by our military!