Linguist returns to Iraq after 20-year odyssey

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Linguist returns to Iraq after 20-year odyssey

After air assaulting into a landing zone, Spc. Khalid Hermez, from Detroit, pulls security as a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter departs the landing zone. U.S. Soldiers from the 1st Air Cavalry Brigade and the 34th Iraqi Army Brigade performed a joint air assault mission and patrol to check on living conditions of a small Iraqi village in 2009. (Army photo by Sgt. Travis Zielinski)

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Tags: With Iraq in the clutches of Saddam Hussein, one man made the critical decision to leave his native country. It took him 20 years but he finall, serving with the U.S. Army, now attempting to rebuild his nation. For Spc. Khalid Hermez, from Detroit, linguist, Company F, 227th Aviation Brigade, 1st Air Cavalry Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, 3rd battalion

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