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Staff Sgt. Kane Shope speaks with Iraqi children.
U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Kane Shope speaks with Iraqi children in a market during a walking patrol in the Rashid community of southern Baghdad, Iraq, on Dec. 4, 2008. Shope is assigned to Detachment 3, 732nd Expeditionary Security Forces Squadron attached to 1st Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division.