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U.S. Navy Seaman Nick Vasilliades, front, patrols a residential area north of the Euphrates River in Rawah, Iraq, Dec. 1, 2008. Vasilliades, a hospital corpsman assigned to Provisional Rifle Platoon 3 and known as “Doc” to the U.S. Marines in the platoon, has been on every mounted and dismounted patrol conducted by the Marines of PRP-3 at Traffic Control Point 3 in western al Anbar province, Iraq.

DOC'S DEDICATION

U.S. Navy Seaman Nick Vasilliades, front, patrols a residential area north of the Euphrates River in Rawah, Iraq, Dec. 1, 2008. Vasilliades, a hospital corpsman assigned to Provisional Rifle Platoon 3 and known as “Doc” to the U.S. Marines in the platoon, has been on every mounted and dismounted patrol conducted by the Marines of PRP-3 at Traffic Control Point 3 in western al Anbar province, Iraq.

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