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An Afghan soldier sets down a bag of rice after it is weighed as U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Ausean Fields, writes down the weight at Forward Operating Base Fenty, Jalalabad, Afghanistan, Oct. 10, 2011. Fields is assigned to the 25 Infantry Division's 3rd Brigade, Security Force Advisors Team 3, deployed from Schofield Barracks, Hawaii. The supplies were being used for a combat resupply mission to Barge Matal in the northern Kunar Valley.

An Afghan soldier sets down a bag of rice after it is weighed as U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Ausean Fields, writes down the weight at Forward Operating Base Fenty, Jalalabad, Afghanistan, Oct. 10, 2011. Fields is assigned to the 25 Infantry Division's 3rd Brigade, Security Force Advisors Team 3, deployed from Schofield Barracks, Hawaii. The supplies were being used for a combat resupply mission to Barge Matal in the northern Kunar Valley.

An Afghan soldier sets down a bag of rice after it is weighed as U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Ausean Fields, writes down the weight at Forward Operating Base Fenty, Jalalabad, Afghanistan, Oct. 10, 2011. Fields is assigned to the 25 Infantry Division's 3rd Brigade, Security Force Advisors Team 3, deployed from Schofield Barracks, Hawaii. The supplies were being used for a combat resupply mission to Barge Matal in the northern Kunar Valley.

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