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Soldiers wait inside a UH-60A Black Hawk helicopter before taking off for a heliborne insertion mission during the Order of the Arctic Sapper competition on Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, Aug. 17, 2011.

Soldiers wait inside a UH-60A Black Hawk helicopter before taking off for a heliborne insertion mission during the Order of the Arctic Sapper competition on Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, Aug. 17, 2011.

Soldiers wait inside a UH-60A Black Hawk helicopter before taking off for a heliborne insertion mission during the Order of the Arctic Sapper competition on Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, Aug. 17, 2011.

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