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Sgt. John Mejia talks to an Iraqi man during a security patrol.
U.S. Marine Corps Sgt. John Mejia (center) talks to an Iraqi man during a security patrol in the vicinity of Forward Operating Base Abu Ghraib in the Al Anbar province in Iraq on April 12, 2006. Mejia is assigned as an assaultman with Mobile Assault Platoon 3, Weapons Company, 1st Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division.