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U.S. Army officers answer questions outside the 82nd Airborne Division Museum during Prop Blast, a traditional event that welcomes new officers to the division on Fort Bragg, N.C., April 8, 2011. As part of the exercise, soldiers who arrived from a field event had only 15 minutes to don their dress uniforms, leaving them little time to scrub the mud from their faces.

U.S. Army officers answer questions outside the 82nd Airborne Division Museum during Prop Blast, a traditional event that welcomes new officers to the division on Fort Bragg, N.C., April 8, 2011. As part of the exercise, soldiers who arrived from a field event had only 15 minutes to don their dress uniforms, leaving them little time to scrub the mud from their faces.

U.S. Army officers answer questions outside the 82nd Airborne Division Museum during Prop Blast, a traditional event that welcomes new officers to the division on Fort Bragg, N.C., April 8, 2011. As part of the exercise, soldiers who arrived from a field event had only 15 minutes to don their dress uniforms, leaving them little time to scrub the mud from their faces.

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