Army Maj. Keith Lathrop, a nurse anesthetist, and Sgt. 1st Class Jerry Ledet, the noncommissioned officer in charge, assigned to Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, Texas, prepare a thyroid surgery patient during Medical Readiness Training Exercise 17-2 at the 37th Military Hospital in Accra, Ghana, Feb. 9, 2017. MEDRETE 17-2 includes participants from the Ghanaian government, Army Africa, Brooke Army Medical Center and the North Dakota National Guard. It is the second in a series of medical readiness training exercises USARAF is scheduled to facilitate in various countries on


Army Maj. Keith Lathrop, a nurse anesthetist, and Sgt. 1st Class Jerry Ledet, the noncommissioned officer in charge, assigned to Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, Texas, prepare a thyroid surgery patient during Medical Readiness Training Exercise 17-2 at the 37th Military Hospital in Accra, Ghana, Feb. 9, 2017. MEDRETE 17-2 includes participants from the Ghanaian government, Army Africa, Brooke Army Medical Center and the North Dakota National Guard. It is the second in a series of medical readiness training exercises USARAF is scheduled to facilitate in various countries on the African continent this year. The mutually beneficial exercise offers opportunities for the partnered militaries to cooperate on medical specific tasks, share best practices and improve medical treatment processes.


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