Col Gary F. Keim (left), the commanding officer of Combat Logistics Regiment 27, 2nd Marine Logistics Group, awards the Purple Heart Medal to Sgt. Julian Bejarano Jr., a mortarman with the Battle Skills Training School, CLR-27, during a Purple Heart award ceremony aboard Camp Lejeune, N.C., Oct. 8, 2013. Bejarano received the Purple Heart for wounds sustained from an improvised explosive device blast in Helmand province, Afghanistan, July 5, 2013.