Lt. Col. John Cross, commander of 1st Battalion, 18th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Advise and Assist Brigade, 1st Infantry Division, United States Division – Center, awards the Combat Medical Badge to Pfc. Michael Canales, a medic with Company A, 1st Bn., 18th Inf. Regt., 2nd AAB and a Corpus Christi, Texas, native Dec. 21 at Camp Taji, Iraq.