Spc. Joaquin Jucaban, a human resource specialist assigned to Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, Multi-National Division – Baghdad, poses in this 2002 graduation picture from the Philippine National Police Academy. Jucaban, who hails from Iloilo, Panay, in the Republic of the Philippines, attended the academy for three years, earning a public safety degree before his first assignment, the Philippine National Police Special Actions Force, which is an elite counter-terrorism/counter-insurgency unit. Jucaban and his wife came to work in the United States in 2006, where he joined the U.S. Army. Recently, Jucaban was selected to attend the U.S. Army's Officer Candidate School at Fort Benning, Ga.