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U.S. Army Spcs. Jimmy Rop, top, and James Verlander prepare to remove ice from a UH-60 Black Hawk medevac helicopter after a snowfall on Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan, Jan. 8, 2014. Rop and Verlander are crew chiefs assigned to Company C, 2nd General Support Aviation Battalion, 1st Aviation Regiment.

U.S. Army Spcs. Jimmy Rop, top, and James Verlander prepare to remove ice from a UH-60 Black Hawk medevac helicopter after a snowfall on Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan, Jan. 8, 2014. Rop and Verlander are crew chiefs assigned to Company C, 2nd General Support Aviation Battalion, 1st Aviation Regiment.

U.S. Army Spcs. Jimmy Rop, top, and James Verlander prepare to remove ice from a UH-60 Black Hawk medevac helicopter after a snowfall on Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan, Jan. 8, 2014. Rop and Verlander are crew chiefs assigned to Company C, 2nd General Support Aviation Battalion, 1st Aviation Regiment.

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