Military Interactions with Local Communities

Images depict military personnel engaging with local children and families in Iraq and Afghanistan, showcasing cultural interactions and support efforts.

060326-A-5745M-038. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Camp Liberty State: Baghdad Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 10TH MTN

040324-M-5753Q-007. Base: Rawah State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ)

Petty Officer 1st Class Craig Gold, a hospital corpsman, assigned to the Border Mentoring Team of 3rd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, Regimental Combat Team 7, instructs Afghan soldiers on proper weapons handling at the border patrol compound in Shamshad, Afghanistan. The team is working with the Afghan Border Patrol to build better training techniques. The 3rd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment is deployed supporting the International Security Assistance Force.

Ayhab, an Iraqi boy, walks with his father as he is escorted by U.S. and Iraqi Army Soldiers in Narhwan, Iraq, Oct. 6, 2007. Ayhab is being escorted to catch a flight from Besmaya Range to a hospital in Najaf where he will receive the second part of his colonoscopy reversal surgery.

Bravo Company Marines decide how much money they are willing to part with in exchange for various items offered by local villagers here, May 9. In addition to fresh bread and canned beverages, the younger locals also put hand-carved sling shots and hats up for sale to the visiting Marines who were in the area conducting a combat logistics patrol in support of the 1st Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment.

U.S. Army Spc. Joe Belton from Mesquite, Texas, of Echo Company, 1st Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment, 2nd Heavy Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, Fort Hood, Texas, takes pictures of Iraqi boys in the village of Ka bashe in Kirkuk, Iraq, May 31. U.S. coalition forces partner with Iraqi police to inspect irrigation systems and meet with local farmers that have agriculture concerns in and around the Kirkuk province of Iraq.

060326-A-5745M-038. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Camp Liberty State: Baghdad Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 10TH MTN

(Kapisa Province, Afghanistan) U.S. Army Sgt. Derick Eaddy, with Provincial Reconstruction Team Kapisa, teaches a handshake to a young Afghan boy during a mission to inspect a newly completed bridge in the Surobi district of Afghanistan. The PRT's mission is to stabilize the region by enabling local governments to care for, educate, employ and protect their people through the construction of basic infrastructure and mentorship.

070326-M-6312K-005. Complete Scene Caption: U.S. Marine Corps MAJ. Greg Hendrix attached to Lima Company, Second Battalion Tenth Marines (Lima 2/0), Second Marine Division, Second Marine Expeditionary Force shakes a students hand after speaking to the local Imam in the courtyard of a local school in Namer on March 26, 2007. Lima 2/0 provided medical supplies, hygiene item and soccer balls to the students during a one day mission to the school. Lima 2/0 is deployed with Multi National Forces-West in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom in the Ambar Province of Iraq to develop Iraqi security forces, facilitate the development of official rule of law through democratic reforms and continue the development of a market based economy centered on Iraqi reconstruction. (U.S. Marine Corps PHOTO by CHIEF Warrant Officer 2nd Class Brook R. Kelsey) (Released) Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Namer State: Ambar Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: LIMA 2/10

050405-N-6501M-009. Base: Fob Hotel, Najaf Country: Iraq (IRQ)

050520-A-1566H-050. Base: Wasit Country: Iraq (IRQ)

Pfc. Jessica Dostie, a military policewoman with 58th Military Police Company, attached to 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, rests against a wall during a long patrol through the community of Police Sub Station 16 before she brings out gifts for the children behind her Sept. 30. Dostie and her fellow MPs, along with their Afghan Uniformed Police partners, were in the community to reach out to the people and get to know them.

050630-A-9930K-063. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Base: Bagram State: Parwan Country: Afghanistan (AFG) Scene Major Command Shown: CJTF-76

U.S. Army Soldiers from 3rd Battalion, 6th Field Artillery, 10th Mountain Division and Iraqi army soldiers conduct a four-day mission consisting of a cordon and search, humanitarian aid and building relations with local Iraqis in Kirkuk, Iraq, March 3, 2008.

Spc. Fred Rawcliffe, medic, 3rd Plt., Co.A., 1/508th PIR, 82nd Airborne Division, checks out the ears of an 11 month-old child during phase II of their operation in the Sangin Valley of southern Afghanistan May 8.

040809-F-1351B-012. Base: Baghdad Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: CENTCOM

U.S. Army Pfc. William Felton, a signal support specialist from Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1st Battalion, 14th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division, talks with local children during a halted patrol in Tarmiya, Iraq, Feb. 17, 2008.

U.S. Marine With Local Children in Marjah, Afghanistan.

060526-A-1906W-079. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Tallil Area Office Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: USACE

Sgt. David Pereda, of Blairstown, N.J., Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 2-113th Infantry Battalion, 50th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, New Jersey Army National Guard shakes hands with an Iraqi boy during a February 2009 visit to Safwan, in southern Iraq.

050630-A-9930K-076. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: North Sal Heva State: Baghdad Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 3ID 4TH BGD 4/64 CAV REG TF4

U.S. Soldiers with 2nd Platoon, Bravo Company, Bandit 4-64 Armor, 3rd Infantry Division, provide security while the local Iraqi police pass out food and water to the Iraqi citizens in the city of Risalah, Baghdad on Sep. 16, 2008.

050127-A-5043I-084. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM State: Baghdad Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: IRAQI ARMY

Spc. Magan Lindsey Girr (left) of Camden, S.C., 1-178th Field Artillery Battalion, South Carolina Army National Guard, hands a stuffed bear to a young Afghan girl during a humanitarian assistance mission, July 15, in a remote village of Kabul province. Girr, a medic at Camp Phoenix, was there to assist the Civil Military Operations, 1-178th Field Artillery Battalion distribute aid to more than 450 people of the Naw Abad Village.

050710-A-9154J-425. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Husseiniya State: Baghdad Country: Iraq (IRQ)

060108-A-9999B-049. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Shiftah State: Diyala Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 4TH ID

030627-M-5505M-026. Base: Al Diwanyah State: Al Qadisiyah Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 3rd Bn 5th Marines

050114-A-9039F-004. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Base: Asadabad State: Kunar Country: Afghanistan (AFG)

Petty Officer 2nd Class William Lowry, corpsman and Civil Affairs specialist with Regimental Combat Team 3, shakes hands with a local boy during a patrol in Helmand Province, Afghanistan, Aug. 18, 2009.

060308-A-5745M-107. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Camp Liberty State: Baghdad Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 10TH MTN DIV

040602-F-4441R-005. Base: Baghdad Country: Iraq (IRQ)

Sgt. Jason Smith, A paratrooper with the 82nd Airborne Divisions 1st Brigade Combat Team, is confronted by a group of young Afghan girls during an Afghan-led clearing operation April 28, 2012, Ghazni province, Afghanistan. Smith serves with 2nd Battalion, 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment.

070909-A-5406P-028.JPG -Rapid City, S.D.-native Staff Sgt. Shane Glowcheski (r.), a platoon sergeant with B Battery, 2nd Battalion, 319th Airborne Field Artillery Regiment, and Sgt. Hector Hernandez (top), a squad leader, are joined by a young student while taking a breather on the steps of an elementary school being renovated in the Grayaat neighborhood of Baghdads Adhamiyah District.

030404-M-4779G-004. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 1 RCT

030527-A-1797M-023. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Base: Kakaran Country: Afghanistan (AFG)

050712-A-8255A-124. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Showka Village State: Diyala Country: Iraq (IRQ)

050718-A-9039F-087. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Base: Bagram Airfield State: Parwan Country: Afghanistan (AFG) Scene Major Command Shown: CJTF-76

Spc. Lemont Chambers, a medic, with C Company, 1st Battalion, 17th Infantry Regiment is bandaging the wounds of a man, Rajankala, Afghanistan, Nov. 28, 2009. Charlie Company's effortsare focused on providing humanitarian aid and support to the populace.

030420-M-8658H-019. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Camp Commando Country: Kuwait (KWT) Scene Major Command Shown: 6th Comm

051121-A-5567G-020. Base: Camp Cooke State: Taji Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: A 490TH CA

050929-A-2098S-041. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Forward Operating Base Marez State: Mosul Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 172ND SBCT

A group of Iraqi children observe US Marine Corps (USMC) Lance Corporal (LCPL) Kenneth R. Fouse, from Company "C", 1ST Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment, as he provides security armed with a 5.56mm M16A2 rifle, equipped with an M203 40mm grenade launcher, during a search and clear operation conducted within the inner city of Fallujah, Iraq. USMC Marines assigned to the 2nd Marine Division are conducting counter-insurgency operations with Iraqi Security Forces (ISF) to isolate and neutralize Anti-Iraqi Forces, in support of Operation IRAQI FREEDOM. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Camp Fallujah State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ)

U.S. Army Spc. Skyler Moser, left, a 2nd Platoon, Company A, 1st Battalion, 133rd Infantry Regiment, Task Force Ironman, a part of the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 34th Infantry Division, Task Force Red Bulls, a squad automatic weapon gunner from Osterdock, Iowa, reads some Dari phrases to two curious young Afghan boys in the Galuch Valley, here March 27 during Operation Promethium Puma.

030609-M-5366H-002. Base: An Nasariyah State: Dhi Qar Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 40599

As Sgt. Albert Smith pulls security, two young Afghan boys navigate their way around him in a village near Qalat, Afghanistan, April 26. Members of Provincial Reconstruction Team Zabul visited the village to discuss agricultural issues with the residents.Staff Sgt. Brian Ferguson

U.S. Marine Corps Cpl. Patrick McCall, left, a rifleman with the 2nd Squad, 3rd Platoon, Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment, Regimental Combat Team 6, receives a high-five from an Afghan boy during a security patrol in Sangin, Helmand province, Afghanistan, Sept. 6, 2012. The Marines conducted the patrol to disrupt the flow of lethal and illicit aid by the enemy in the area.

US Army (USA) soldiers from the 769th Engineer Battalion transported goods to Afghan locals in the village of Turkman Kalay, as part of the Adopt A Village Program, in support of Operation ENDURING FREEDOM. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Base: Turkman Kalay Country: Afghanistan (AFG)

060415-A-4576B-040. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM State: Paktia Country: Afghanistan (AFG) Scene Major Command Shown: 10TH MOUNTAIN

Spectators along the side of the road in Iraq as a patrol passes ..

050630-A-9930K-084. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Base: Kandahar Airfield Country: Afghanistan (AFG)

040306-F-7823A-011. Base: Al Anwar Country: Iraq (IRQ)

041028-F-8946M-016. Base: Baghdad Country: Iraq (IRQ)

050630-A-9930K-085. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Base: Bagram State: Parwan Country: Afghanistan (AFG) Scene Major Command Shown: CJTF-76

041122-M-2583M-008. Base: Fallujah State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ)

030416-M-8658H-003. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Safwan Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: I MEF

040926-A-0363C-037. Base: A-Camp Lane (DEH AFGHANA) Country: Afghanistan (AFG)

050718-A-9039F-088. Subject Operation/Series: SWARMER Base: Samarra State: Salah Ad Din Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 101ST AIRBORNE DIVISION (AA)

060408-F-7823A-087. Base: Tall Afar Country: Iraq (IRQ)

050717-F-9629D-088. Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 56 BCT TEXAS NATIONAL GUARD

051008-A-8255A-112. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Al Riyad State: Baghdad Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: NORTHEAST

070318-M-2819S-036. Complete Scene Caption: A Soldier in the Iraqi Army passes out school supplies. The Fallujah Iraqi Police and Soldiers with 2nd Battalion, 2nd Brigade, and 1ST Division of the Iraqi Army supply the Anbar School with toys and school supplies as a combined forces exercise on March 8, 2007. Regimental Combat Team 6 is deployed with II Marine Expeditionary Force in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom in the Anbar Province of Iraq (Multi-National Forces-West) to develop the Iraqi Security Forces, facilitate the development of official rule of law through democratic government reforms, and continue the development of a market based economy centered on Iraqi Reconstruction. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by CPL. Neill A. Sevelius) (Released) Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Fallujah State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 2-2-1 MTT

Hospital Corpsman 1ST Class Jerry Walker of Naval Environmental Preventive Medicine Unit 7 (NEPMU-7) talks to three young Kurds at a refugee camp outside the city of Zakhu. U.S. and coalition troops established the camp as part of Operation Provide Comfort, a multinational effort to aid Kurdish refugees in northern Iraq and southern Turkey. Subject Operation/Series: PROVIDE COMFORT Country: Iraq (IRQ)

U.S. Army Sgt. Jose Perez, from the 125th Military Police Company, makes balloon animals for children during Operation Care at the Mahmood Raqi Orphanage, Kapisa Province, Afghanistan, Feb. 3, 2008. Operation Care distributes supplies to Afghan people donated by various units within theater.

1st Lt. Kyle Kurtz, (left) executive officer, Company E, 2nd Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment, sits with the first two arrivals and the interpreter at a shura here Sept. 7, 2009. More than 20 local men attended the shura throughout the day to discuss the future of the area.

060215-A-0527A-008. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Base: Kandahar Army Air Field Country: Afghanistan (AFG)

050901-A-0527A-017. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Base: Kandahar Army Air Field Country: Afghanistan (AFG)

050411-A-3240S-007. Base: Camp Victory, Baghdad Country: Iraq (IRQ)

050623-A-5930C-008. Base: Abu Ghraib Country: Iraq (IRQ)

Front view of HM3 Todd Pascus, USN, Corpsman, kneeling next to Abraham, a small Somali orphan, as he eats at a Bardera, Somalia school. This mission is in support of Operation Restore Hope. Subject Operation/Series: RESTORE HOPE Base: Bardera Country: Somalia (SOM)

060207-A-3749Z-008. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Base: Bagram State: Parwan Country: Afghanistan (AFG) Scene Major Command Shown: CJTF76

U.S. Army Lt. Col. Mark Martin, right, civil affairs team lead for Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) Farah, shakes hands and laughs with Mawlawi Guhlam M. Ruhaani, director of Hajj and Endowment, at the conclusion of a key leader engagement in Farah City, Dec. 29. PRT Farah's mission is to train, advise and assist Afghan government leaders at the municipal, district and provincial levels in Farah province, Afghanistan. Their civil military team is comprised of members of the U.S. Navy, U.S. Army, the U.S. Department of State and the Agency for International Development (USAID).

Sfc. Chuck Tirpak of Spartanburg, S.C., 1-178 Field Artillery Battalion, South Carolina Army National Guard, walks with a local Afghan boy during a recent foot patrol through a local village in Kabul, Afghanistan.

An Afghan girl stands by as U.S. Soldiers and Afghan National Policemen patrol the village of Hutal, Afghanistan, Nov. 19, 2009. The Soldiers and ANP are providing winter supplies and medical aid to the Afghan villagers.

060430-A-6365W-300. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Forward Operating Base Remagen State: Baghdad Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 101ST

An Iraqi child walks with U.S. Army Sgt. Charlie Jones during a joint dismounted presence patrol at a market in Narhwan, Iraq, Nov. 1, 2007. Jones is from Bravo Troop, 3rd Battalion, 1st Cavalry Regiment, 3rd Heavy Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division.

U.S. Army Sgt. Jeff Woodford speaks with an Iraqi man waiting to receive medical care during a cooperative medical engagement in Al Madinah As Siyahiyah, Iraq, on May 16, 2007. Iraqi army soldiers from the 1st Iraqi Army Division, with assistance from U.S. Marines from Alpha Company, 2nd Combined Arms Battalion, 136th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Marine Logistics Group (Forward), are providing medical care to Iraqi civilians.

Tech. Sgt. Angela Pollard, medic attached to Laghman Provincial Reconstruction Team, examines a child's injured knee during a mentoring neighborhood patrol, Sept. 5, in Mehtar Lam, Laghman province. Laghman Provincial Reconstruction Team members joined the Afghans on a patrol through a village that coalition forces haven't been through in years. The purpose of the patrol was to teach the ANP to conduct foot patrols through villages and talk to the locals, gathering information first hand.

A Navy corpsman applies a dressing to a Somali woman's foot during the multinational relief effort Operation Restore Hope. Subject Operation/Series: RESTORE HOPE Country: Somalia (SOM)

040713-M-5505M-007. Base: Fallujah State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ)

030614-F-7709W-004. Subject Operation/Series: OPERATION IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Kirkuk Country: Iraq (IRQ)

A member of A Company, 2-87 10th Mountain Division leans out the window of a High-Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV) to speak to a young Haitian boy during Operation Uphold Democracy. Exact Date Shot Unknown. Subject Operation/Series: UPHOLD DEMOCRACY Base: Port Au Prince Country: Haiti (HTI)

NURISTAN PROVINCE, Afghanistan (Dec. 2, 2010) - U.S. Army Lt. Col. Roberto Garcia (left) from Chicago, Ill., the civil-military affairs director for the Nuristan Provincial Reconstruction Team, listens to the translation of a conversation with Mr. Malik Yaqub, resident of Nangaresh village, concerning the security in the area. Projects like the irrigation proposal studied by the PRT require sufficient security to go forward. The project would potentially feed 7,000 people and could provide 4,000 with access to clean water. The PRT works with government and non-government partners to improve infrastructure capacity in the region.

U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class David Richardson, with 1st Squadron, 89th Cavalry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division, hands out soccer balls to children in Baghdad, Iraq, Sept. 29, 2007.

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A Navy corpsman, serving with Combat Service Support Detachment 15 (CSSD-15), helps a Somali man while participating in a medical civic action program during the multinational relief effort Operation Restore Hope. Subject Operation/Series: RESTORE HOPE Base: Modadishu Country: Somalia (SOM)

040605-M-4419R-019. Base: India Base (NASIR WAAL SALAAM) State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ)

U.S. Army Cpl. Demetrius Contreras, Veterinary Service Support (VSS) veterinary food inspector attached to the Expeditionary Medical Facility (EMF), shows how he completes a food receipt after a delivery during a Food Safety Course with the Djibouti Ministry of Agriculture at Camp Lemonnier, Djibouti, Nov. 28, 2022. Participants received information on various topics ranging from food handling safety, storage, food reception, inspection and bacteriology. (Department of Defense photo by U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Destani K. Matheny)

060128-A-0527A-001. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Base: Kandahar Army Air Field Country: Afghanistan (AFG)

Task Force 1st Battalion, 6th Infantry Regiment, Charlie 1st Battalion, 35th Armored Regiment Headquarters Platoon Staff Sgt Allan Triplett of Louisville, Miss., faces a little competition during an arm wrestling competition while bonding with local Iraqis outside a local eatery in the Ula Market in the Sadr City district of Baghdad on Sep. 24, 2008.

060420-A-4576B-059. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM State: Paktia Country: Afghanistan (AFG) Scene Major Command Shown: 10TH MOUNTAIN

060406-A-3749Z-074. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Base: Bagram Airfield State: Parwan Country: Afghanistan (AFG)

GUNNERY SGT. C. S. Barnum, Tiyan Zone Liaison, Combat Service Support Detachment 37, interacts with a Kurdish baby while he makes his daily rounds to the evacuee community to ensure all of their needs are met. Subject Operation/Series: PACIFIC HAVEN Base: Tiyan State: Guam (GU) Country: Northern Mariana Islands (MNP)

060521-A-7969G-004. Base: Al Fatah State: Salah Ah Din Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: NORTHEAST

050410-A-3211W-002. Base: Alduluyah Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 3rd Infantry Division

U.S. Marine Corps Sgt. Chyna Gibbs, a combat marksmanship coach assigned to Weapons and Field Training Battalion, Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego, and a Jordanian Soldier assigned to the Quick Response Force Brigade, observe a target during an all-female marksmanship subject matter expert exchange between U.S. Marines and Jordanian Soldiers in Zarqa, Jordan, Feb. 20, 2024. U.S. Marine Corps Forces Central Command and the Jordanian Armed Forces developed the exchange to highlight the similarities in marksmanship training and the impacts that inclusivity has within our militaries. Marine Corps

050511-M-8172E-013. Base: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 3/25 LIMA CO

DA-SD-06-12208. Country: Iraq (IRQ)

Iraqi children walk by as U.S. Army Soldiers conduct a joint dismounted presence patrol with Iraqi National Police at a market in Narhwan, Iraq, Nov. 1, 2007. The Soldiers are from Bravo Troop, 3rd Battalion, 1st Cavalry Regiment, 3rd Heavy Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division.

050718-A-9039F-061. Subject Operation/Series: SWARMER Base: Samarra State: Salah Ad Din Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 101ST AIRBORNE DIVISION (AA)

051007-A-9718B-002. Base: New Orleans State: Louisiana (LA) Country: United States Of America (USA)

090812-N-0506A-326 U.S. Air Force Maj. Lisa Ahaesy, a public affairs officer with Combined Joint Task Force - Horn of Africa, interviews a family in front of their burned home in the Boulas commune of Djibouti City on Aug. 12, 2009. Their home is one of 21 buildings destroyed in a fire on Aug. 10, 2009. U.S. soldiers from the 478th Civil Affairs Battalion and sailors from Maritime Civil Affairs Team 104 are delivering supplies and donated building materials to the fire victims.

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