El^Salvador

12/14/2007 ;- ;DORAL, Fla. (AFPN) ;– ;A U.S. Southern Command team, consisting of approximately 16Air Force medical professionals, completed a medical readiness training exercise in La Union, El Salvador Dec. 13, where they provided general medical services to 7,300 patients from communities near the country’s southeastern coast.

The medical exercise is the first of 65 bilateral medical readiness training exercises the command will sponsor in 17 Caribbean, Central and South American countries through Sept. 30, 2008.