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U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Christopher Emmons, with the 330th Movement Control Battalion, 647th Quartermaster Company, waits for his cue to perform an airborne insertion from a C-17 Globemaster III cargo aircraft from Charleston Air Force Base, S.C., during a joint forcible entry exercise at Pope Air Force Base, N.C., June 21, 2010.

U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Christopher Emmons, with the 330th Movement Control Battalion, 647th Quartermaster Company, waits for his cue to perform an airborne insertion from a C-17 Globemaster III cargo aircraft from Charleston Air Force Base, S.C., during a joint forcible entry exercise at Pope Air Force Base, N.C., June 21, 2010.

U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Christopher Emmons, with the 330th Movement Control Battalion, 647th Quartermaster Company, waits for his cue to perform an airborne insertion from a C-17 Globemaster III cargo aircraft from Charleston Air Force Base, S.C., during a joint forcible entry exercise at Pope Air Force Base, N.C., June 21, 2010.

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