BAGHDAD - Spc. Megan Bender, a combat medic assigned to the 300th Military Police Company, 91st MP Battalion, 8th MP Brigade, cleans a wound on the arm of Iraqi Police Capt. Hussein Howaish Salume, the training officer assigned to Adamiyah IP Station...

BAGHDAD - At Joint Security Station Shuleik, Spc. Megan Bender, a combat medic assigned to the 300th Military Police Company, 91st MP Battalion, 8th MP Brigade, treats a cut on the arm of Iraqi Police Capt. Hussein Howaish Salume, the training office...

BAGHDAD - "I love my job and I love helping people out whether they're Americans or Iraqis," said Rapids City, S.D., native Spc. Megan Bender, a combat medic assigned to the 300th Military Police Company, 91st MP Battalion, 8th MP Brigade, as she tre...

BAGHDAD - Spc. Megan Bender, a combat medic assigned to the 300th Military Police Company, 91st MP Battalion, 8th MP Brigade, opens up sterile gauze before treating an Iraqi policeman at Joint Security Station Shuleik, here, May 21. "If they [Iraqis]...

BAGHDAD - Iraqi Police Capt. Hussein Howaish Salume, the training officer assigned to Adamiyah IP Station, receives first aid for a minor wound at Joint Security Station Shuleik, here, May 21, from Spc. Megan Bender (right), a combat medic from Rapid...