This DefendAmerica photo essay features the USMC's 3rd CAG, one of the units that Soldiers' Angels SOS: KIDS program is working to support. To learn what you can do to help our heroes with efforts like these, visit the SOS: KIDS webpage.

U.S. Marine Corps Capt. J.R. Rinaldi, a 37-year-old civil affairs group officer from Vancouver, Wash., briefs his Marines at Camp Habbaniyah, Iraq, Aug. 18, 2006. Rinaldi and other members of 3rd Civil Affairs Group, Marines of 3rd Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment and U.S. Army soldiers were on their way to speak to a water treatment facility owner. U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Ray Lewis

U.S. Navy Petty Officer 3rd Class Sergio Garza, a 33-year-old hospital corpsman from McAllen, Texas, examines an Iraqi man's scarred back in Sadiquiyah, Iraq, Aug. 18, 2006. Garza and other members of 3rd Civil Affairs Group, Marines of 3rd Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment and U.S. Army soldiers were on their way to speak to a water treatment facility owner. U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Ray Lewis

An Iraqi boy is delighted with the gifts Marines and Army soldiers gave him in Khaladiyah, Iraq, Aug. 18, 2006. The group was on its way to speak to a water treatment facility owner when they stopped to hand out backpacks, soccer balls and Iraqi flags. U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Ray Lewis

U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Andrew J. Meyers, a 40-year-old soldier from Plymouth, Mass., hands out flags to Iraqi children in Sadiquiyah, Iraq, Aug. 18, 2006. U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Ray Lewis

Marines of 3rd Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment, 3rd Civil Affairs Group and U.S. Army soldiers speak to a water facility owner in Sadiquiyah, Iraq, Aug. 18, 2006. The servicemembers were making a joint effort to fix the facility to provide Iraqis with clean water. Marines of 3rd Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment are currently serving a seven-month deployment in the Habbaniyah area under Regimental Combat Team 5. U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Ray Lewis