Navy Hospitalman 3rd Class Justin Beck, director, Tactical Combat Casualty Care (TCCC) course, Naval Hospital Camp Pendleton, instructs Hospitalman 2nd Class Fabian Garcia, corpsman, 1st Dental Battalion, on the procedure of an emergency cricothyrotomy at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California, July 17, 2018. A cricothyrotomy is a procedure done in life-threatening situations that allows the patient to breathe with assistance of a tube inserted through a small incision in the throat in case of an obstruction of the airway.

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