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A cache of unexploded ordnance is detonated by U.S. Air Force Airmen with the 447th Expeditionary Civil Engineering Squadron's explosive ordnance disposal team at a site near Forward Operating Base Falcon, Iraq, Oct. 16, 2006. The unexploded ordnance was recovered from a blast area at the ammunition holding area on the forward operating base following a recent mortar attack.

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A cache of unexploded ordnance is detonated by U.S. Air Force Airmen with the 447th Expeditionary Civil Engineering Squadron's explosive ordnance disposal team at a site near Forward Operating Base Falcon, Iraq, Oct. 16, 2006. The unexploded ordnance was recovered from a blast area at the ammunition holding area on the forward operating base following a recent mortar attack.

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