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U.S. Army Sgt. Nathaniel Adams, a cavalry scout from the Crazy horse Troop, 4th Squadron, 9th Cavalry Regiment, 2nd Heavy Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division talks via radio with a helicopter pilot during a recent combined reconnaissance patrol with counterparts of the Iraqi Police in the industrial sector of the town of Taza in Kirkuk, Iraq, on May 16, 2009.

U.S. Army Sgt. Nathaniel Adams, a cavalry scout from the Crazy horse Troop, 4th Squadron, 9th Cavalry Regiment, 2nd Heavy Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division talks via radio with a helicopter pilot during a recent combined reconnaissance patrol with counterparts of the Iraqi Police in the industrial sector of the town of Taza in Kirkuk, Iraq, on May 16, 2009.

U.S. Army Sgt. Nathaniel Adams, a cavalry scout from the Crazy horse Troop, 4th Squadron, 9th Cavalry Regiment, 2nd Heavy Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division talks via radio with a helicopter pilot during a recent combined reconnaissance patrol with counterparts of the Iraqi Police in the industrial sector of the town of Taza in Kirkuk, Iraq, on May 16, 2009.

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