Keep on smiling
ALI BASE, Iraq -- Senior Airman Chris Griffin, 407th Air Expeditionary Group still photographer, plays with an Iraqi child before she goes into surgery Oct. 30, 2008. Air Force and Italian doctors are working together correcting cleft lip and palates, and providing free surgery for Iraqi families. People with clefts have challeges eating and speaking properly. Griffin is deployed from Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska. His hometown is Havelock, N.C. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Robert Aten)