The doctors and corpsmen teased us about it and wanted us to ask Mother Superior when their turn would be.

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The platoon was short of engineers trained to sweep the ground for bombs and Navy corpsmen to aid wounded Marines.

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Today, we also send our thoughts and prayers to all the folks from Jacksonville on the front lines at this very moment: pilots and aircrews around the world, Navy corpsmen on the ground in Afghanistan.

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