Sgt. Shane P. Santelli, a motor transport chief with 2nd LAAD Battalion, stands and takes time to admire his work in the 2nd LAAD headquarters building aboard Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, April 3. Santelli began painting in 2011 as a way to help him express himself after suffering a traumatic injury in Delaram, Afghanistan, in 2010. "I literally just picked up a brush and started painting," he said. Sergeant therapeutically paints through PTSD healing process 120403-M-OT671-855

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