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U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Renee Durbin holds a stuffed animal up to Mustafa Jasim's nose in the Air Force Theater Hospital's intermediate care ward at Joint Base Balad, Iraq, Dec. 20, 2008. Mustafa, his brother and an Iraqi police officer were transported from Balad to the 86th Combat Support Hospital in Baghdad. Durbin, a volunteer with the hospital's Patient Administration and Disposition area, is deployed with the 332nd Expeditionary Maintenance Group.

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U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Renee Durbin holds a stuffed animal up to Mustafa Jasim's nose in the Air Force Theater Hospital's intermediate care ward at Joint Base Balad, Iraq, Dec. 20, 2008. Mustafa, his brother and an Iraqi police officer were transported from Balad to the 86th Combat Support Hospital in Baghdad. Durbin, a volunteer with the hospital's Patient Administration and Disposition area, is deployed with the 332nd Expeditionary Maintenance Group.

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