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U.S. Army Chief Warrant Officer 2 Gideon Brent, a UH-60A Black Hawk helicopter pilot for Forward Support Medical Team 1, puts on his flight gear upon receiving the order to launch a "nine line," an urgent medical evacuation mission, after a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device injured approximately 50 people in Sinjar, Iraq, July 7, 2006. Brent is from the 542nd Medical Company (Air Ambulance) out of Fort Campbell, Ky.

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U.S. Army Chief Warrant Officer 2 Gideon Brent, a UH-60A Black Hawk helicopter pilot for Forward Support Medical Team 1, puts on his flight gear upon receiving the order to launch a "nine line," an urgent medical evacuation mission, after a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device injured approximately 50 people in Sinjar, Iraq, July 7, 2006. Brent is from the 542nd Medical Company (Air Ambulance) out of Fort Campbell, Ky.

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