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U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Scott Tyler takes down a tripod and solar panel of a TMQ-53 tactical weather tower a top a building on Forward Operating Base Pasab, Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan, Aug. 4, 2014. Tyler, a battlefield weather forecaster, is assigned to the 19th Expeditionary Weather Squadron.

U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Scott Tyler takes down a tripod and solar panel of a TMQ-53 tactical weather tower a top a building on Forward Operating Base Pasab, Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan, Aug. 4, 2014. Tyler, a battlefield weather forecaster, is assigned to the 19th Expeditionary Weather Squadron.

U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Scott Tyler takes down a tripod and solar panel of a TMQ-53 tactical weather tower a top a building on Forward Operating Base Pasab, Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan, Aug. 4, 2014. Tyler, a battlefield weather forecaster, is assigned to the 19th Expeditionary Weather Squadron.

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