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Army Staff Sgt. Paul Ramos, right, and Army Sgt. Joseph Sexton, Army reservists with the 425th Civil Affairs Battalion from Encino, Calif., diagram an engagement their civil affairs team is about to conduct during pre-deployment training at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J., July 7, 2011. DOD photo by Donna Miles

Army Staff Sgt. Paul Ramos, right, and Army Sgt. Joseph Sexton, Army reservists with the 425th Civil Affairs Battalion from Encino, Calif., diagram an engagement their civil affairs team is about to conduct during pre-deployment training at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J., July 7, 2011. DOD photo by Donna Miles

Army Staff Sgt. Paul Ramos, right, and Army Sgt. Joseph Sexton, Army reservists with the 425th Civil Affairs Battalion from Encino, Calif., diagram an engagement their civil affairs team is about to conduct during pre-deployment training at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J., July 7, 2011. DOD photo by Donna Miles

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