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Marine Corps 1st Lt. Steve Murello of Embedded Training Team 4-4 listens as an Afghan officer explains the coordinates used during a live-fire exercise incorporating the Afghan army’s 4th Kandak forward observers, fire direction control personnel and artilleryman at Forward Operating Base Kalagush in Afghanistan’s Nuristan province, Aug. 2, 2009. U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Matthew Moeller

Marine Corps 1st Lt. Steve Murello of Embedded Training Team 4-4 listens as an Afghan officer explains the coordinates used during a live-fire exercise incorporating the Afghan army’s 4th Kandak forward observers, fire direction control personnel and artilleryman at Forward Operating Base Kalagush in Afghanistan’s Nuristan province, Aug. 2, 2009. U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Matthew Moeller

Marine Corps 1st Lt. Steve Murello of Embedded Training Team 4-4 listens as an Afghan officer explains the coordinates used during a live-fire exercise incorporating the Afghan army’s 4th Kandak forward observers, fire direction control personnel and artilleryman at Forward Operating Base Kalagush in Afghanistan’s Nuristan province, Aug. 2, 2009. U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Matthew Moeller

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