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Navy Cmdr. Richard P. Sharpe (right) and Navy Lt. Cmdr. Janos Taller drape a patient, whose stomach is covered in iodine, in a sterilized cloth at Al Asad, Iraq, Sept. 16. Sharpe is the officer-in-charge of Chief of Professional Services, Charlie Surgical Company Al Asad, Combat Logistics Regiment 15, 1st Marine Logistics Group (Forward), and Taller is a Navy trauma surgeon with Charlie Surgical Company Al Asad. Sharpe is a native of Chesapeake, Va., and Taller hails from Vallejo, Calif.