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U.S. Marine Corps Cpl. Brandon Shirley shakes hands with an evacuee leaving a KC-130J Hercules aircraft after arriving in Cairo, Egypt, March 5, 2011. The Marines are helping evacuate Egyptians, who fled to the Tunisian border from Libya, get back to Egypt. Shirley, a loadmaster, is assigned to the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit.

U.S. Marine Corps Cpl. Brandon Shirley shakes hands with an evacuee leaving a KC-130J Hercules aircraft after arriving in Cairo, Egypt, March 5, 2011. The Marines are helping evacuate Egyptians, who fled to the Tunisian border from Libya, get back to Egypt. Shirley, a loadmaster, is assigned to the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit.

U.S. Marine Corps Cpl. Brandon Shirley shakes hands with an evacuee leaving a KC-130J Hercules aircraft after arriving in Cairo, Egypt, March 5, 2011. The Marines are helping evacuate Egyptians, who fled to the Tunisian border from Libya, get back to Egypt. Shirley, a loadmaster, is assigned to the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit.

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