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Service members assigned to the Combined Joint Task Force-Horn brace for a wall of dirt and rocks created by the prop wash from a Marine Corps CH-53E helicopter as it takes off from a dry lake bed during a search and rescue exercise, Grand Bara, Djibouti, April 23, 2009.

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Service members assigned to the Combined Joint Task Force-Horn brace for a wall of dirt and rocks created by the prop wash from a Marine Corps CH-53E helicopter as it takes off from a dry lake bed during a search and rescue exercise, Grand Bara, Djibouti, April 23, 2009.

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