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Cleft and Craniofacial Awareness and Prevention Month: Walter Reed providers help transform smiles here, abroad

U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Kerry Latham, a plastic surgeon with the Walter Reed Army Medical Center, cuts a surgical suture while conducting cleft lip surgery on a 3-month-old Belizean girl during a surgery medical readiness training exercise as part of New Horizons 2013 April 30, 2013, at Northern Regional Hospital in Orange Walk, Belize. New Horizons is a U.S. Southern Command-sponsored annual series of joint humanitarian assistance exercises deploying U.S. military engineers, veterinarians, medics and other professions to Central and South American nations for training, construction projects and to provide humanitarian and medical services. (DoD photo by Tech. Sgt. Tony Tolley, U.S. Air Force/Released)