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Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Eleanor H. Roper, front, pulls a weather infantry kit up a slope during a field exercise on Marine Corps Mountain Warfare Training Center in Bridgeport, Calif., Jan. 31, 2014. Roper, a field radio operator, is assigned to Ragnarok Company, 2nd Supply Battalion, 2nd Marine Logistics Group.

Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Eleanor H. Roper, front, pulls a weather infantry kit up a slope during a field exercise on Marine Corps Mountain Warfare Training Center in Bridgeport, Calif., Jan. 31, 2014. Roper, a field radio operator, is assigned to Ragnarok Company, 2nd Supply Battalion, 2nd Marine Logistics Group.

Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Eleanor H. Roper, front, pulls a weather infantry kit up a slope during a field exercise on Marine Corps Mountain Warfare Training Center in Bridgeport, Calif., Jan. 31, 2014. Roper, a field radio operator, is assigned to Ragnarok Company, 2nd Supply Battalion, 2nd Marine Logistics Group.

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