Rudy Lirato (center), a U.S. contractor and translator for the 1st Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division's Embedded Provincial Reconstruction Team, returns from a mission in a village north of Baghdad, arriving back at Camp Taji, Iraq, via a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter. Lirato, who has worked with coalition troops for a little more than three years, said he hopes to help Iraq as the nation.