FORWARD OPERATING BASE MUSA QAL'EH, Helmand province, Afghanistan - Sgt. Habiba Abida, the team leader of Female Engagement Team 12 and an Arlington, Va., native, stands on top of a building that overlooks an area of the Musa Qal’eh District, Aug. 5. Abida, a 2003 graduate of Wakefield High School, helps run a literacy school for the women of Musa Qal’eh where the women are afforded their first opportunity to be formally taught how to read and write. Female Marines launch first Musa QalE28099eh womanE28099s school 110805-M-RI804-518

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