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U.S. Navy Seaman Samuel Duodu posts a security watch as he and his fellow riverines prepare to be extracted in a riverine patrol boat from the Watah Peninsula near Rawah, Iraq, July 11, 2008.

U.S. Navy Seaman Samuel Duodu posts a security watch as he and his fellow riverines prepare to be extracted in a riverine patrol boat from the Watah Peninsula near Rawah, Iraq, July 11, 2008.

U.S. Navy Seaman Samuel Duodu posts a security watch as he and his fellow riverines prepare to be extracted in a riverine patrol boat from the Watah Peninsula near Rawah, Iraq, July 11, 2008.

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