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U.S. soldiers walk toward a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter after a battlefield visitation on Observation Post English in Afghanistan's Logar province, April 18, 2014.

U.S. soldiers walk toward a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter after a battlefield visitation on Observation Post English in Afghanistan's Logar province, April 18, 2014.

U.S. soldiers walk toward a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter after a battlefield visitation on Observation Post English in Afghanistan's Logar province, April 18, 2014.

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