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Members of international security forces in Afghanistan brace against rotor wash from a CH-47 Chinook helicopter as it descends to a hot landing zone to load a suspected militant in Wardak province, Afghanistan, Nov. 19, 2009.

ROTOR WASH

Members of international security forces in Afghanistan brace against rotor wash from a CH-47 Chinook helicopter as it descends to a hot landing zone to load a suspected militant in Wardak province, Afghanistan, Nov. 19, 2009.

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