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Chief Petty Officer Ryan Hooper, a law enforcement instructor from the U.S. Coast Guard Training Team West in Alameda, Calif., demonstrates pressure point techniques with multi-national students from St. Kitts and the Bahamas at training conducted as part of Exercise Tradewinds 2011, March 8, 2011. Tradewinds is an annual exercise designed to build relationships and enhance stability and inter-operability throughout the Caribbean region. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class George Degener).