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A paratrooper exits a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter above White Lake near Elizabethtown, N.C., Sept. 19, 2012. The soldiers, assigned to the 82nd Airborne Division's 1st Brigade Combat Team and 95th Civil Affairs Brigade were earning German badges for parachuting.

A paratrooper exits a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter above White Lake near Elizabethtown, N.C., Sept. 19, 2012. The soldiers, assigned to the 82nd Airborne Division's 1st Brigade Combat Team and 95th Civil Affairs Brigade were earning German badges for parachuting.

A paratrooper exits a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter above White Lake near Elizabethtown, N.C., Sept. 19, 2012. The soldiers, assigned to the 82nd Airborne Division's 1st Brigade Combat Team and 95th Civil Affairs Brigade were earning German badges for parachuting.

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