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U.S. Army Chief of Staff Gen. Ray Odierno shakes the hand of an Afghan child recovering at the Staff Sgt. Heathe N. Craig Joint Theater Hospital on Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan, Feb. 21, 2013.

RECOVERING CHILD

U.S. Army Chief of Staff Gen. Ray Odierno shakes the hand of an Afghan child recovering at the Staff Sgt. Heathe N. Craig Joint Theater Hospital on Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan, Feb. 21, 2013.

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