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U.S. Army Sgt. Kevon Campbell uses a Handheld Interagency Identity Detection Equipment, or HIIDE, system to check the identity of an Afghan villager against a database of known insurgents during a search of a compound in southern Ghazni province, Afghanistan, April 8, 2012. Campbell is a combat medic assigned to the 82nd Airborne Division’s 1st Brigade Combat Team. The equipment stores an image of the person’s iris as well as his fingerprints.

U.S. Army Sgt. Kevon Campbell uses a Handheld Interagency Identity Detection Equipment, or HIIDE, system to check the identity of an Afghan villager against a database of known insurgents during a search of a compound in southern Ghazni province, Afghanistan, April 8, 2012. Campbell is a combat medic assigned to the 82nd Airborne Division’s 1st Brigade Combat Team. The equipment stores an image of the person’s iris as well as his fingerprints.

U.S. Army Sgt. Kevon Campbell uses a Handheld Interagency Identity Detection Equipment, or HIIDE, system to check the identity of an Afghan villager against a database of known insurgents during a search of a compound in southern Ghazni province, Afghanistan, April 8, 2012. Campbell is a combat medic assigned to the 82nd Airborne Division’s 1st Brigade Combat Team. The equipment stores an image of the person’s iris as well as his fingerprints.

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