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U.S. Marine Corps Gunnery Sgt. Javier Vega pauses for a security halt while conducting perimeter security checks around a new combat outpost in Diwar, Afghansitan, Dec. 18, 2010. Vega is assigned to Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 40.

U.S. Marine Corps Gunnery Sgt. Javier Vega pauses for a security halt while conducting perimeter security checks around a new combat outpost in Diwar, Afghansitan, Dec. 18, 2010. Vega is assigned to Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 40.

U.S. Marine Corps Gunnery Sgt. Javier Vega pauses for a security halt while conducting perimeter security checks around a new combat outpost in Diwar, Afghansitan, Dec. 18, 2010. Vega is assigned to Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 40.

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