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Afghan police officers and U.S. Army paratroopers use a model terrain board of a village to practice for a raid to find a suspected weapons cache in a compound in southern Ghazni province, Afghanistan, April 7, 2012. The paratroopers are assigned to the 82nd Airborne Division’s 1st Brigade Combat Team. The Afghan police will take point on the operation.

Afghan police officers and U.S. Army paratroopers use a model terrain board of a village to practice for a raid to find a suspected weapons cache in a compound in southern Ghazni province, Afghanistan, April 7, 2012. The paratroopers are assigned to the 82nd Airborne Division’s 1st Brigade Combat Team. The Afghan police will take point on the operation.

Afghan police officers and U.S. Army paratroopers use a model terrain board of a village to practice for a raid to find a suspected weapons cache in a compound in southern Ghazni province, Afghanistan, April 7, 2012. The paratroopers are assigned to the 82nd Airborne Division’s 1st Brigade Combat Team. The Afghan police will take point on the operation.

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