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Air Force Airman 1st Class Murad Mohiadeen defends an entry control point near the Air Force Theater Hospital at Joint Base Balad, Iraq, Aug. 2, 2008. Mohiadeen, a native of Baghdad, was raised in the United States when his family emigrated from Iraq in 1990. He is a security forces apprentice with 332nd Expeditionary Security Forces Squadron here and is deployed from Royal Air Force Station Lakenheath, England. U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Don Branum, 332nd Air Expeditionary Wing

Air Force Airman 1st Class Murad Mohiadeen defends an entry control point near the Air Force Theater Hospital at Joint Base Balad, Iraq, Aug. 2, 2008. Mohiadeen, a native of Baghdad, was raised in the United States when his family emigrated from Iraq in 1990. He is a security forces apprentice with 332nd Expeditionary Security Forces Squadron here and is deployed from Royal Air Force Station Lakenheath, England. U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Don Branum, 332nd Air Expeditionary Wing

Air Force Airman 1st Class Murad Mohiadeen defends an entry control point near the Air Force Theater Hospital at Joint Base Balad, Iraq, Aug. 2, 2008. Mohiadeen, a native of Baghdad, was raised in the United States when his family emigrated from Iraq in 1990. He is a security forces apprentice with 332nd Expeditionary Security Forces Squadron here and is deployed from Royal Air Force Station Lakenheath, England. U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Don Branum, 332nd Air Expeditionary Wing

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