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Staff. Sgt. Michael Ortiz, Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 2nd Battalion, 503rd Infantry Regiment (Airborne), listens to a local Afghan child’s heart during a medical civil action project in Parun, Afghanistan. Ortiz worked with another Coalition Forces medic to treat more than 60 patients.

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Staff. Sgt. Michael Ortiz, Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 2nd Battalion, 503rd Infantry Regiment (Airborne), listens to a local Afghan child’s heart during a medical civil action project in Parun, Afghanistan. Ortiz worked with another Coalition Forces medic to treat more than 60 patients.

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