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There’s a little Afghan baby in Garmser District in southern Afghanistan whose first few minutes of life began in the hands of a couple of Marines. Sgt. LaJuanna Baker and Cpl. Andrea Moreira-Rios, members of a Female Engagement Team assigned to 1st Battalion, 3rd Marines, set out from Combat Outpost Rankel south of Garmser District Center, on a mission to a health clinic to talk with Afghan women and give them a supply of personal hygiene items. When they got there, they were approached by a desperate midwife who asked if they would help deliver a baby for a woman…

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