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PhotoID: 200591901318
Submitted by: 2nd Marine Division
Operation/Exercise/Event:
Operation Iraqi Freedom

Caption:
FALLUJAH, Iraq – Corporal Darryl Toquinto, an infantryman with 4th Combined Anti-Armor Team, Weapons Company, 1st Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment, plays “peek-a-boo” with an Iraqi child while patrolling the city streets in March. The 24-year-old Gaithersburg, Md. native is a veteran of a 2004 tour of duty in Afghanistan and a Purple Heart recipient who currently serves alongside his unit and Iraqi Security Forces to conduct counterinsurgency operations here. Photo by: Cpl. Mike Escobar

Three more photos at source

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PLAYFUL MARINE and an IRAQI YOUTH

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Most town names are used in a lot of different states like "Mechanicsville" "Bel Air" or "Portland" but I am pretty sure there is only one Gaithersburg on the planet.

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Corporal Darryl Toquinto is a warrior and a Purple Heart recipient who has seen combat in Afghanistan and Iraq and doesn’t mind the lulls that come between missions.

"It's our job to be hot, bored and miserable, but suck it up and carry on with the missions," said the 24-year-old infantryman with 1st Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment, a unit currently conducting counterinsurgency operations here. "We're here to do a job, and we know we didn't come out here for seven months of sun tanning and sitting in the AC."