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U.S. Navy Hospitalman Miranda, with 2nd Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment, waits aboard an aircraft to depart the Kandahar Air Field in Afghanistan headed to Camp Barber on June 3, 2008. The Marine unit, based out of Marine Air Ground Combat Center Twenty-nine Palms, Calif., is a reinforced light infantry battalion.

Hospitalman Miranda waits aboard an aircraft.

U.S. Navy Hospitalman Miranda, with 2nd Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment, waits aboard an aircraft to depart the Kandahar Air Field in Afghanistan headed to Camp Barber on June 3, 2008. The Marine unit, based out of Marine Air Ground Combat Center Twenty-nine Palms, Calif., is a reinforced light infantry battalion.

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