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Petty Officer 1st Class Rene Gonzalez, a maritime enforcement specialist from U.S. Coast Guard Training Team East in Portsmouth, Va., demonstrates the proper way to apply pressure to the thumb of a handcuffed subject on Chief Petty Officer Wayne Gangstad, from U.S. Coast Guard Training Team West in Alameda, Calif., during pressure point training given to a multi-national group of students 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).