By Sgt. James Allen
MANDA BAY, Kenya - Eight young servicemen fromthe Kenyan Nation Youth Service joined service members from Combined Joint Task Force – Horn of Africa and the Kenyan Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries in Operation Honest Knight to perform a Veterinarian Civil Action Program in the Lamu District islands of southern Kenya.
The CJTF-HOA military members trained the servicemen to administer vaccines, de-wormers, multi-vitamins and external parasite repellant.
“The Veterinary Civic Action Program is the best thing to happen to the people of the Lamu District and their livestock,” said Levi Mbuvi, a member of the National Youth Servicemen. "This is because healthy animals mean better life for the people living in their marginalized islands.”
The VETCAPs are designed for people from CJTF-HOA to train and augment host nation assets by providing veterinary care for local livestock populations. During the VETCAP, they supported the district veterinary officers and NYS servicemen, letting them run the show.
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(Photo: A Kenyan National Youth Serviceman uses a drench gun to put a tick killer on the back of a goat during a Veterinarian Civil Action Program (VETCAP) project. The Kenyan National Youth Serviceman is working along side U.S. Army and Kenyan veterinarians in cooperation with the local government and village leaders to vaccinate and to kill tick populations within their herds. The U.S. Army veterinarians are part of the Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa, a unit of the United States Central Command. (U.S. Air Force photo by Technical Sgt. Sean M. Worrell))
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