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U.S. Army Spc. Nicholas Cisneros, a combat medic, with Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1st Battalion, 37th Armor, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 1st Armored Division, out of Fort Bliss, Texas, provides medical aid to a young Iraqi boy before the ribbon cutting ceremony for Al Bassa Girls Primary School in the village of Tal Jal northwest of Hawijah, Iraq, on July 6, 2010.

Spc. Nicholas Cisneros provides medical aid to a young Iraqi boy.

U.S. Army Spc. Nicholas Cisneros, a combat medic, with Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1st Battalion, 37th Armor, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 1st Armored Division, out of Fort Bliss, Texas, provides medical aid to a young Iraqi boy before the ribbon cutting ceremony for Al Bassa Girls Primary School in the village of Tal Jal northwest of Hawijah, Iraq, on July 6, 2010.

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