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U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Austin Lawler, assigned to Dam Security Unit 3, provides security in the Euphrates River during a water security patrol around the city of Ramadi, Iraq, Nov. 9, 2006. Marines of DSU-3 are deployed with I Marine Expeditionary Force (Forward) in support of the war on terror.

WATER PATROL

U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Austin Lawler, assigned to Dam Security Unit 3, provides security in the Euphrates River during a water security patrol around the city of Ramadi, Iraq, Nov. 9, 2006. Marines of DSU-3 are deployed with I Marine Expeditionary Force (Forward) in support of the war on terror.

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