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U.S. Army Sgt. Adam Rice uses a sand table to describe the route of a combat logistics patrol to fellow support paratroopers on Forward Operating Base Arian in Afghanistan's Ghazni province, May 25, 2012. Rice is assigned to the 82nd Airborne Division’s Company F, 2nd Battalion, 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team. The sand table is a scaled version of the terrain the paratroopers will encounter on their patrol.

U.S. Army Sgt. Adam Rice uses a sand table to describe the route of a combat logistics patrol to fellow support paratroopers on Forward Operating Base Arian in Afghanistan's Ghazni province, May 25, 2012. Rice is assigned to the 82nd Airborne Division’s Company F, 2nd Battalion, 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team. The sand table is a scaled version of the terrain the paratroopers will encounter on their patrol.

U.S. Army Sgt. Adam Rice uses a sand table to describe the route of a combat logistics patrol to fellow support paratroopers on Forward Operating Base Arian in Afghanistan's Ghazni province, May 25, 2012. Rice is assigned to the 82nd Airborne Division’s Company F, 2nd Battalion, 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team. The sand table is a scaled version of the terrain the paratroopers will encounter on their patrol.

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