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11th Marine Expeditionary Unit
I Marine Expeditionary Force

Oct 17, 2009

Navy Lt. Billy Turley and a local translator explain to the father of an ill child the severity of his son’s tooth infection, which had spread down the jaw and neck and formed an abscess that threatened to cut off the boy’s breathing. Turley removed seven decayed teeth and surgically drained the infection at the Santa Rosa Hospital in Oecussi, Timor Leste, Oct. 17.

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