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U.S. Army Sgt. Brian Reger runs a metal detector over a suspected weapons cache site in Nubai, Iraq, June 3, 2009. Reger is assigned to the 856th Engineer Company, 56th Stryker Brigade Combat Team. U.S. and Iraqi army soldiers worked together to search an area northwest of Taji previously used for hiding weapons.

U.S. Army Sgt. Brian Reger runs a metal detector over a suspected weapons cache site in Nubai, Iraq, June 3, 2009. Reger is assigned to the 856th Engineer Company, 56th Stryker Brigade Combat Team. U.S. and Iraqi army soldiers worked together to search an area northwest of Taji previously used for hiding weapons.

U.S. Army Sgt. Brian Reger runs a metal detector over a suspected weapons cache site in Nubai, Iraq, June 3, 2009. Reger is assigned to the 856th Engineer Company, 56th Stryker Brigade Combat Team. U.S. and Iraqi army soldiers worked together to search an area northwest of Taji previously used for hiding weapons.

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