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An Afghan villager asks U.S. Army 1st Lt. Kirk Shoemaker, left, if his soldiers can skirt around his fields to avoid damaging his crops in Afghanistan's Ghazni province, June 3, 2012. Shoemaker, assigned to the 82nd Airborne Division's 1st Brigade Combat Team, tells the farmer his men generally spread out while moving through fields.

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An Afghan villager asks U.S. Army 1st Lt. Kirk Shoemaker, left, if his soldiers can skirt around his fields to avoid damaging his crops in Afghanistan's Ghazni province, June 3, 2012. Shoemaker, assigned to the 82nd Airborne Division's 1st Brigade Combat Team, tells the farmer his men generally spread out while moving through fields.

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