PhotoID: 2004101862757
Submitted by: 24th MEU
Operation/Exercise/Event:
Iraqi Freedom
Caption:
1st Lt. Erin Kelly of the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit plays a picture-drawing game with an Iraqi schoolgirl on her classroom chalkboard during an Oct. 16th visit to an elementary school in south-central Iraq. The visit was the latest in the MEU’s ongoing Back to School campaign, a key feature of which provides local Iraqi schoolchildren with water, stickers, balloons, sports equipment, and backpacks full of educational supplies.
Kelly, 25, is a Seagirt, N.J., native and assistant logistics officer with the headquarters detachment of MEU Service Support Group 24.
The 24th MEU is currently conducting security and stability operations in the Northern Babil province.
(Official USMC photo by Lance Cpl. Sarah A. Beavers. This photo is cleared for release.)
Photo by: Lance Cpl. Sarah A. Beavers
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Date the Photo was taken:10/16/2004
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