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U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Jennifer Brockmoller, left, and Sgt. 1st Class Nicholas Rose, both with the 330th Movement Control Battalion, 647th Quartermaster Company, detangle parachute bags onboard a C-17 Globemaster III cargo aircraft after about 100 service members performed an airborne insertion during a joint forcible entry exercise June 21, 2010, at Pope Air Force Base , N.C.

U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Jennifer Brockmoller, left, and Sgt. 1st Class Nicholas Rose, both with the 330th Movement Control Battalion, 647th Quartermaster Company, detangle parachute bags onboard a C-17 Globemaster III cargo aircraft after about 100 service members performed an airborne insertion during a joint forcible entry exercise June 21, 2010, at Pope Air Force Base , N.C.

U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Jennifer Brockmoller, left, and Sgt. 1st Class Nicholas Rose, both with the 330th Movement Control Battalion, 647th Quartermaster Company, detangle parachute bags onboard a C-17 Globemaster III cargo aircraft after about 100 service members performed an airborne insertion during a joint forcible entry exercise June 21, 2010, at Pope Air Force Base , N.C.

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