Postcards From The Combat Zone &The Female Engagement Team

Marines with the Iraqi Women's Engagement team, 1st Marine Logistics Group, Headquarters and Services Company, and local Iraqi women from Trailer Town, Iraq, pose for a photograph June 26, 2008 photo Lance Cpl. Gabriela Garcia
Marines with the Iraqi Women's Engagement team, 1st Marine Logistics Group, Headquarters and Services Company meet with local women in the Al Anbar province of Iraq June 26, 2008.
photo Lance Cpl. Gabriela Garcia
An Iraqi child shows U.S. Marine Lance Cpl. Cresswell J. Matamoros, assigned to Headquarters and Service Company, 1st Marine Logistics Group, and serving with the Iraqi Women's Engagement (IWE) team, a hand sign in Kabani, Iraq, June 28, 2008
photo Lance Cpl. Gabriela Garcia
An Iraqi girl watches U.S. Marine Sgt. Lynsey DeVane, an engineer clerk with Iraqi Women's Engagement (IWE) team, from the 1st Marine Logistics Group, as she takes notes of her conversation with the Iraqi women in Kabani, Iraq, June 28, 2008.
photo Lance Cpl. Gabriela Garcia
Cpl. Mayda Y. Gomez, an administrative clerk assigned to the 1st Marine Logistics Group and serving with the Iraqi Women's Engagement (IWE) team, holds an Iraqi baby in Kabani, Iraq, June 28, 2008.photo Lance Cpl. Gabriela Garcia
Marine Lance Cpl. Mayda Y. Gomez, left, an administrative clerk assigned to the 1st Marine Logistics Group and serving with the Iraqi Women's Engagement (IWE) team, hands out shampoo and soap bars to Iraqi women in Kabani, Iraq, June 28, 2008.
photo Lance Cpl. Gabriela Garcia
Marissa L. Stuart, center, intelligence clerk with the 2nd Low Altitude Air Defense Battalion and serving with the Iraqi Women's Engagement (IWE) team, with an Iraqi woman and girl in Kabani, Iraq, June 28, 2008. IWE, a group of female Marines, supports Iraqi women in Anbar province.photo Lance Cpl. Gabriela Garcia
Marines from Female Engagement Team,work with Marines from the 4th Civil Affairs Group (CAG) as they meet with villagers south of Nawa district, Helmand province, Sept. 8, 2009, to learn about the civilians' concerns.photo Gunnery Sgt. James A. Burks
Sgt. Angailque Skean during a cordoned search in Helmand province, Afghanistan, July 28, 2009. Skean is a motor transportation Marine attached to the Female Engagement Team, with Foxtrot Company, 2/8.photo LCpl. Paul Miller