Overcoming Adversity

Staff Sgt. Chantel Thibeaux, Dental technical school, Joint Base-Fort Sam Houston, Texas, dental assistant instructor, begins to cry as doctors read the surgery risks prior to double mastectomy surgery. Thibeaux, 27, the youngest breast cancer patient at San Antonio Medical Center, was diagnosed with breast cancer in Feb. 2014 after Wendell encouraged her to get a lump on her breast checked. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Vernon Young Jr.)

PHOTO BY: Staff Sgt. Vernon Young Jr.
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NIKON D4

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24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8

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4

SHUTTERSPEED

1/640

ISO

2000

IMAGE IS PUBLIC DOMAIN

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