PHOTOS: MND-B Soldiers visit Al Murooa School for Girls in Ur

By Spc. Joseph Rivera Rebolledo

3rd BCT PAO, 4th Inf. Div., MND-B

BAGHDAD - Sgt. Aaron Simmons, a native of Texas City, Texas, who serves as a squad leader with 3rd Platoon, Company A, 1st Combined Arms Battalion, 68th Armored Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, Multi-National-Division - Baghdad, pounds fists with a group of boys that showed up during a visit to the Al Murooa School for Girls May 12 in the northern Baghdad neighborhood of Ur.

BAGHDAD - Spc. Daniel Tweit, a native of Ely, Minn., who serves as an infantryman with 3rd Platoon, Company A, 1st Combined Arms Battalion, 68th Armored Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, Multi-National-Division - Baghdad, watches as a group of girls go to their homes with new backpacks given to them by the Soldiers during a visit to the Al Murooa School for Girls May 12 in the northern Baghdad neighborhood of Ur.

BAGHDAD - Pvt. Joshua Pinson, a native of Burleson, Texas, who serves as a combat medic with 3rd Platoon, Company A, 1st Combined Arms Battalion, 68th Armored Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, Multi-National-Division - Baghdad, prepares to give an ointment for itching and rashes to a Ur neighborhood resident during a visit to the Al Murooa School for Girls May 12.

BAGHDAD - An Iraqi boy went ahead of his peers and climbed the gate of the Al Murooa School for Girls to see what was happening inside. Soldiers from 3rd Platoon, Company A, 1st Combined Arms Battalion, 68th Armored Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, Multi-National-Division - Baghdad, visited to the school May 12 to help the headmaster receive additional help from the Iraqi government and neighborhood councils.

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