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On the flightdeck of the USS Iwo Jima, U.S. Marines with the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit, climb aboard a CH-53 to fly into Kuwait to begin training exercises there on Oct. 2, 2006.

TRAINING IN KUWAIT

On the flightdeck of the USS Iwo Jima, U.S. Marines with the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit, climb aboard a CH-53 to fly into Kuwait to begin training exercises there on Oct. 2, 2006.

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