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U.S. Army 1st Sgt. Wray Gablemann, of 187th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division, runs to guide a U.S. Army UH-60 Blackhawk medical evacuation helicopter to the landing zone as it arrives in Owesat, Iraq, Dec.18, 2007, to evacuate injured Iraqi personnel who were attacked at a Concerned Local Citizen checkpoint by a suicide bomber.

BLACKHAWK EVACUATION

U.S. Army 1st Sgt. Wray Gablemann, of 187th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division, runs to guide a U.S. Army UH-60 Blackhawk medical evacuation helicopter to the landing zone as it arrives in Owesat, Iraq, Dec.18, 2007, to evacuate injured Iraqi personnel who were attacked at a Concerned Local Citizen checkpoint by a suicide bomber.

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