American servicemembers deploy to Costa Rica
Staff Sgts. Steven Geist (left) and David Pagani take a young Costa Rican girl with cerebral palsy who has been diagnosed with pneumonia to a waiting helicopter to be air evacuated from a makeshift clinic to a hospital in Limon Dec. 18 from Piedra Mesa, Costa Rica. Sergeants Geist and Pagani are assigned to the Joint Task Force-Bravo medical element. JTF-Bravo deployed 28 servicemembers from Soto Cano Air Base, Honduras, to Costa Rica at the invitation of the country's ministry of health for a medical readiness training exercise. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Austin M. May)