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Gray, armed and in full battle gear, entered the room expecting trouble. But she didn’t find any weapons.

Instead, a young Iraqi woman was lying on the concrete floor, struggling to give birth.

“They told [the Iraqi men] I was a doctor, so they’d let me in,” she said in a telephone interview Monday while explaining the Nov. 17 incident. But the three women inside — including the one giving birth — weren’t expecting to see an armed soldier coming through the door.

“I scared the heck out of them,” Gray said.

After surveying the situation, Gray set her weapon aside and took off her helmet to show the women she was one of them. “They were surprised,” she said. “And they don’t see a lot of blond hair.”

Meanwhile, the baby was ready to be born...

Gray, who said she’s seen plenty of death in her stint in Iraq, got to hold Zuher Ahmed Mohowed for a few minutes before the soldiers left.

“Sometimes, it appears that nobody appreciates what we’re doing,” Gray said. “To be able to do something like that and help these people … it just reminds you that we’re all human.”

Gray said the soldiers were told the family didn’t like Americans. At least they didn’t until the search-turned-medical rescue.

“We at least made a difference with this one family,” she said, “and probably the whole neighborhood. Word will spread.