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Soldiers assigned to the Ohio National Guard's 1st Combined Arms Battalion, 145th Armor Regiment conduct live-fire training with an M1A2 SEPv3 Abrams main battle tank at the Camp Ripley Training Center near Little Falls, Minn., July 28, 2025. The battalion was the first unit within the 34th Infantry Division to receive the modernized vehicles.

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