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Paratroopers file through the forest from base camp to a main travel route, where they will assume a tactical column to begin the day’s mountain training exercise on Camp Frank D. Merrill near Dahlonega, Ga., Sept. 21, 2011.

Paratroopers file through the forest from base camp to a main travel route, where they will assume a tactical column to begin the day’s mountain training exercise on Camp Frank D. Merrill near Dahlonega, Ga., Sept. 21, 2011.

Paratroopers file through the forest from base camp to a main travel route, where they will assume a tactical column to begin the day’s mountain training exercise on Camp Frank D. Merrill near Dahlonega, Ga., Sept. 21, 2011.

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