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            <div class="image-caption">Joint Task Force-Bravo service members pose for a group photo after completing Chapel Hike 75, in Las Minitas, a village located in Ajuterique, Comayagua, Honduras, Feb. 3, 2018. Service members hiked three miles carrying bags of food on their backs to provide to the local families upon arrival to the village.</div>
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            <div class="image-caption">A woman from the Las Minitas village receives a bag of donated food and supplies form a Joint Task Force – Bravo service member during the Chapel Hike-75, Feb. 3, 2018. The Chapel Hike took place in Las Minitas, a village located in Ajuterique, Comayagua, Honduras where service members hiked three miles carrying bags of food on their backs to hand out to the local population.</div>
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            <div class="image-caption">U.S. Army Capt. James Berreth, Joint Task Force–Bravo command judge advocate, helps a woman carry a bag of donated food and supplies during Chapel Hike-75, Feb. 3, 2018. The Chapel Hike took place in Las Minitas, a village located in Ajuterique, Comayagua, Honduras where service members hiked three miles carrying bags of food on their backs to hand out to the local population.</div>
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            <div class="image-caption">Mr. Jesse Diaz, Army Support Activity Soto Cano Air Base, gives soccer balls to representatives from three villages near Las Minitas, located at Comayagua, Honduras, on behalf of the Kick for Nick Foundation, Feb. 3, 2018. The soccer balls are meant for the local school children and were collected by volunteers in the U.S. to be distributed by troops across the world as was the dream of Private 1st Class Nick Maderas who died during combat. The activity was part of Chapel Hike 75.</div>
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            <div class="image-caption">U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Dezarae Holden, Joint Task Force-Bravo 612th Air Base Squadron, hands out Candy to children in Las Minitas, a village located in Ajuterique, Comayagua, Honduras during Chapel Hike-75, on Saturday, February 3, 2018.  Service members take care of the local children while their parents receive donated food and supplies carried by service members to their village.</div>
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            <div class="image-caption">U.S. Army Col. Keith McKinley, Joint Task Force–Bravo commander, hikes three miles up to Las Minitas, a village located in Ajuterique, Comayagua, Honduras during Chapel Hike-75, on Saturday, February 3, 2018. Participants carried a back pack with 25 pounds of food to give to the local population in Las Minitas.</div>
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            <div class="image-caption">Two Honduran Soldiers hike the road to Las Minitas, a village located approximately three miles from Ajuterique in Comayagua, Honduras, while providing security to the Joint Task Force – Bravo service members participating in the Chapel Hike-75, Feb. 3, 2018.</div>
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            <div class="image-caption">Service members from Joint Task Force-Bravo participate in Chapel Hike 75 and walk towards Las Minitas, a village located approximately three miles from Ajuterique in Comayagua, Honduras, Feb. 3, 2018. In spite of the heat, sun and exhaustion, service members were enthusiastically hiking the road mountain to provide food for the local community.</div>
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    <div><b>By Martin Chahin</b> <span class="date">/ Published Feb. 21, 2018</span></div>
    <span class="dateline-text">Comayagua, Honduras, </span>
    <p style="text-align: justify;">After walking twelve kilometers uphill, carrying a backpack containing 25 pounds of food, a total of 200 members of Joint Task Force-Bravo arrived in the community of Las Minitas, Ajuterique in the department of Comayagua, to carry out the 75<sup>th</sup> Chapel Hike, Saturday, February 3, 2018.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">This activity consists of collecting food through donations from each service member for the purchase of food that will be provided to the communities, which have been previously selected through a study to ensure that the distance is not so extensive; considering they will be walking towards the sites.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">"This activity is carried out to achieve an approach with the population of the communities. This time we had three villages together and that fills us with pride because we had a good time. Not so much because we bring them food but because we can spend time with them" said Col. Keith McKinley, JTF-Bravo commander.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Approximately 12 visits to different villages in the departments of Comayagua and La Paz take place every year. "Everything began many years ago when, together with the chaplain of that time, we went on a walk to a village near the base to visit some people who were sick. We brought them medicines and we saw that we could do more and for more people. That's how the idea of ​​these Chapel Hikes was born" said Herberth Gaekel, organizer of this event.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">In addition to food, soccer balls are also donated to encourage sportsmanship among the local school children. "We have a foundation that sponsors this called Kick for Nick, in honor of soldier Nicholas A. Madaras who fell in combat where. So we bring the balls and we play with the children for a while. These soccer balls are donated by people from all over the world "said Chaplain Joseph Watson, JTF-Bravo command chaplain. </p><br />
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