Lt. Col. Louis Zeisman, a native of Fayetteville, N.C., commander of the 2nd Battalion, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, Multi-National Division - Baghdad, and an Iraqi national police officer give an Iraqi boy some candy during a school supply distribution event, Feb. 19, at the Al Assal kindergarten in the city of Oubaidy. The Al Assal kindergarten was one of two schools to receive school items from the combined forces. Paratroopers have been assisting their Iraqi partners in Oubaidy and across New Baghdad for several weeks to improve the lives of its residents. Family members of deployed paratroopers from Fort Bragg, N.C. collected the items to be donated to the Iraqi schools.