QUEPOS, COSTA RICA - Twenty-two Costa Rican Guarda

QUEPOS, COSTA RICA - Twenty-two Costa Rican Guarda Costas attended a two-day workshop conducted by Sgt. 1st. Class David Muniz and Sgt. Michael Marfia, medics from New Mexico National Guard, as part of the National Guard Bureau's State Partnership Program. Muniz and Marfia shared their medical knowledge with the Coast Guardsmen on topics ranging from anatomy, triage, assessing breathing and consciousness, applying a tourniquet, splinting broken limbs, and responding to a mass casualty incident. The culminating exercise was a response to a simulated earthquake where the students triaged patients, provided first aid and moved casualties out of harms way. (Released, U.S. Army Photo by 2LT Anna Doo, New Mexico National Guard)