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An Afghan contractor helps unload engineering equipment at Kandahar University delivered by U.S. troops assigned to the Kandahar Provincial Reconstruction Team in Kandahar, Afghanistan, May 22, 2012.

An Afghan contractor helps unload engineering equipment at Kandahar University delivered by U.S. troops assigned to the Kandahar Provincial Reconstruction Team in Kandahar, Afghanistan, May 22, 2012.

An Afghan contractor helps unload engineering equipment at Kandahar University delivered by U.S. troops assigned to the Kandahar Provincial Reconstruction Team in Kandahar, Afghanistan, May 22, 2012.

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