U.S. Air Force Capt. Angela Welsh, a physician assistant

U.S. Air Force Capt. Angela Welsh, a physician assistant and Senior Airman Gabriele Stevens, a medical technician, both with the Vermont Air National Guard, help to treat a Senegalese woman in Thies, Senegal, July 12, 2012. Welsh and Stevens are both working as part of a humanitarian civic assistance (HCA) in conjunction with Western Accord 2012, a multi-lateral exercise with Senegalese, several Western African nations and the Armed Forces of Burkina Faso, Guinea, Gambia and France.