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U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Richard Rodriguez checks the perimeter for insurgents as U.S. Army coalition convoys return from a patrol at Kirkuk Regional Air Base, Iraq, Jan. 24, 2007. Rodriguez is a perimeter guard gunner with 506th Expeditionary Security Forces Squadron.

PATROL RETURNS

U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Richard Rodriguez checks the perimeter for insurgents as U.S. Army coalition convoys return from a patrol at Kirkuk Regional Air Base, Iraq, Jan. 24, 2007. Rodriguez is a perimeter guard gunner with 506th Expeditionary Security Forces Squadron.

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