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Purple Heart

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Marine Corps Gen. Joe Dunford awards the Purple Heart to Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Javier Suarez, an artilleryman with Task Force Spartan, 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit,, at Kara Soar Counter Fire Complex, Iraq, April. 22, 2016. The ceremony was held at the location where Suarez and other Marines were wounded in an ISIS rocket attack.

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