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Spent shell casings pile up next to a Army combat engineer who is manning an M240-B machine gun during a live-fire exercise on Fort Bragg, N.C., July 21, 2011. Machine gunners provided covering fire while other engineers breached a wire obstacle nearby.

Spent shell casings pile up next to a Army combat engineer who is manning an M240-B machine gun during a live-fire exercise on Fort Bragg, N.C., July 21, 2011. Machine gunners provided covering fire while other engineers breached a wire obstacle nearby.

Spent shell casings pile up next to a Army combat engineer who is manning an M240-B machine gun during a live-fire exercise on Fort Bragg, N.C., July 21, 2011. Machine gunners provided covering fire while other engineers breached a wire obstacle nearby.

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