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Cpl. Terry Green, a 20-year-old native of San Diego and an administrative clerk with the 1st Force Service Support Group, kept his boxing skills sharp during his six-month deployment to Iraq, combining strength training with shadow boxing, sparring and road work. The 6-foot-2-inch right hander has been raised on hand-to-hand combat since his sixth birthday, when his father taught him his first combination of the basic punches ? jabs, hooks and uppercuts. He registered with USA Boxing two years later, and has been fighting under the banner of the national governing body of Olympic-style boxing ever since. Green has an amateur boxing record of 52-13.