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A U.S. medic checked a boy’s eyes on a helicopter en route to a hospital in Kandahar, Afghanistan, Tuesday. The boy was wounded after stepping on an improvised explosive device.
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A U.S. medic checked a boy’s eyes on a helicopter en route to a hospital in Kandahar, Afghanistan, Tuesday. The boy was wounded after stepping on an improvised explosive device.
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U.S. Spc. Joshua Schonert lit a cigarette Friday as he prepared for the day after dawn attacks by Taliban insurgents on their checkpoint in Kandahar, Afghanistan.
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A soldier with the 1-71 Cavalry stretches before exercising at the Dand District government center where he is based June 10, 2010 in Dand District of Kandahar Province, Afghanistan.
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Lt. Michael Thompson of the 1-71 Cavalry eats breakfast before leading an early-morning foot patrol at Tarnac outpost June 13, 2010 in rural Dand District, just south of Kandahar, Afghanistan.
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An American soldier makes his way through a wheat field during a foot patrol June 13, 2010 in rural Dand District, just south of Kandahar, Afghanistan.
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U.S. Army soldiers from Bravo Company 2nd Battalion, 502nd Infantry Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division, participate in a joint patrol with Afghan Army soldiers near Forward Operating Base Howz-e-Madad, in Zhari district, Kandahar province, southern Afghanistan, Wednesday, Aug. 18, 2010.
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An American soldier attached a yellow flower to his helmet during a joint patrol with Afghans in the Arghandab valley of Kandahar province, Afghanistan.
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A string of bullets hangs on the neck of US Army soldier PFC Jean-Paul Desculline , of Miami, Florida, from 1-320th Alpha Battery, 2nd Brigade of the 101st Airborne Division, at COP Nolen, in the volatile Arghandab Valley, Kandahar, Afghanistan, Sunday, July 25, 2010.
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A U.S. Navy corpsman stands in a pool of blood while tending to a solider that was wounded by an IED blast at the Kandahar Role 3 Hospital July 12, 2010 at Kandahar Air Field in Kandahar, Afghanistan. The hospital, one of the most advanced in the country, recently moved into a modern, custom-built fortified building on the sprawling airbase that serves as the nerve center for the NATO military effort in southwestern Afghanistan.
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US Army soldiers from the 2nd Platoon Charlie Company, 2-508th Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division jump on Lt. Chris Farrington of Pownal, Maine, giving him a “pink belly” on his last day in charge of the platoon at Combat Outpost Terra Nova, Kandahar, Afghanistan, Sunday, July 18, 2010.
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U.S. Army Sgt. Jonathan Duralde (right) and Sgt. Luis Gamarra of Bravo Troop 1-71 CAV react and hold hands as they fight pain from injuries they suffered from an IED blast as they are transported aboard a MEDEVAC helicopter from Charlie Co. Sixth Battalion, 101st Airborne Combat Aviation Brigade, Task Force Shadow June 25, 2010 near Kandahar, Afghanistan.
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A U.S. soldier watched an Afghan movie on TV Wednesday while relaxing at Combat Outpost Nolen, an outlying base for the 2nd Brigade of the 101st Airborne Division, in the volatile Arghandab Valley, in Kandahar, Afghanistan.
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An Afghan soldier carried rocket-propelled grenade rounds on his back during a patrol with American soldiers near Combat Outpost Ware Arghandab Valley, outside Kandahar City.
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U.S. Army Sgt. Chad Orozco took a quick break in the back of a Blackhawk helicopter after transporting a shooting victim in Kandahar, Afghanistan, Wednesday.
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A US Army soldier looks over a note containing Pashto translations of frequently-used phrases June 14, 2010 in rural Dand District, just south of Kandahar, Afghanistan.
