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U.S. Marine Lance Cpl. Saul Lopezromo provides security while fellow Marines speak to the headmaster of a school in the vicinity of Forward Operating Base Abu Gharib, Iraq, April 17, 2006. Lopezromo is a rifleman with 1st Squadron, 2nd Platoon, 3rd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, Regimental Combat Team 5, 1st Marine Division, I Marine Expeditionary Force.

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U.S. Marine Lance Cpl. Saul Lopezromo provides security while fellow Marines speak to the headmaster of a school in the vicinity of Forward Operating Base Abu Gharib, Iraq, April 17, 2006. Lopezromo is a rifleman with 1st Squadron, 2nd Platoon, 3rd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, Regimental Combat Team 5, 1st Marine Division, I Marine Expeditionary Force.

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