U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Muna Nur, a native of St. Paul, Minn., a medic with the 10th Sustainment Brigade, Task Force Muleskinner, laughs with some soldiers from the Louisiana National Guard's 1086th Transportation Company, Task Force Muleskinner, before embarking with them on a convoy from Forward Operating Base Ghazni to Bagram Air Field on Afghanistan's notorious Highway 1, May 23, 2012. Photo by Sgt. Ken Scar

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Story by Sgt. Ken Scar

U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Muna Nur is striking for many reasons. Born in Somalia, she has the warm complexion and elegant features of women, like the famous model Iman, who are native to that region. Her feisty attitude belies her ethereal appearance, however, and is more a testament to her six-year military career that includes two tough deployments to Iraq and a third, current one to Afghanistan, where she is the non-commissioned officer-in-charge of the Troop Medical Clinic, 10th Sustainment Brigade, Task Force Muleskinner.

“I was born in Somalia, so I’m a child of war, I guess,” she said. “When I was two months old, because of the war, my mom moved us to Kenya until I was five, and then to America – where we finally settled in Minnesota. I consider myself an American even though I wasn’t born there.”
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