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U.S. Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class James Slaughter, a field medical technician with Combat Logistics Battalion 13, Combat Logistics Regiment 17, 1st Marine Logistics Group, and a native of Easton, Pennsylvania, demonstrates the proper way to apply a tourniquet onto a role-playing casualty to Palau locals, during a “Save a Life” initiative during Palau’s bi-weekly Night Market as part of exercise Koa Moana 24 at Airai, Palau, June 29, 2024. During Koa Moana’s deployment throughout the Indo-Pacific region, U.S. Marines and Sailors from I Marine Expeditionary Force, work to strengthen alliances and partnerships with development of interoperable capabilities, combined operations, theater security cooperation, and capacity-building efforts. Exercises like Koa Moana administer 1st MLG to tackle complex challenges by fostering collaboration among bold thinkers and employing creative methods to optimize prepositioning, enhance sustainment and distribution networks, and bolster readiness in distributed environments such as Palau, the Federal States of Micronesia, and Papa New Guinea. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Nello Miele)