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A paratrooper gives the thumbs up before jumping from a CH-47 Chinook helicopter during Leapfest 2016, an international parachute training event, in West Kingston, R.I., Aug. 6, 2016. Army National Guard photo by Staff Sgt. Quentin Davis

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A paratrooper gives the thumbs up before jumping from a CH-47 Chinook helicopter during Leapfest 2016, an international parachute training event, in West Kingston, R.I., Aug. 6, 2016. Army National Guard photo by Staff Sgt. Quentin Davis

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