The 2024 Lesser Antilles Medical Assistance Team (LAMAT), part of U.S. Southern Command’s enduring promise to be a valued partner in the region, integrates U.S. Air Force active duty and reserve personnel with partner nation medical establishments, offering real-world benefits and assistance to achieve positive outcomes through collaboration. Teams traveled to Suriname, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, and St. Kitts and Nevis, where they treated a cumulative 2,300 patients.A surgical team made up of U.S. Air Force reservists from the 349th Medical Squadron and a Surinamese physician, wraps a patient’s leg after surgery at Paramaribo’s Academic Hospital in Suriname, February 21, 2024. (Photo: U.S. Air Force Technical Sergeant Rachel Maxwell)