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U.S. Army Pfc. Dustin Meadows leads a patrol formation to an extraction point after completion of a search for weapons caches near the Khark Water Treatment Facility in Taji, Iraq, on Feb. 13, 2007. Meadows is assigned as a rifleman to Alpha Company, 2nd Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment.

Pfc. Dustin Meadows leads a patrol formation to an extraction point.

U.S. Army Pfc. Dustin Meadows leads a patrol formation to an extraction point after completion of a search for weapons caches near the Khark Water Treatment Facility in Taji, Iraq, on Feb. 13, 2007. Meadows is assigned as a rifleman to Alpha Company, 2nd Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment.

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