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1st Lt. Kareem F. Hernandez, 2nd Platoon leader in Able Company, 2nd Battalion, 503rd Infantry Regiment (Airborne), talks on the radio while village elders and a Afghan National policeman walk down a mountain during a patrol to Omar in Kunar Province Afghanistan Jan. 11.

MOUNTAIN PATROL IN OMAR

1st Lt. Kareem F. Hernandez, 2nd Platoon leader in Able Company, 2nd Battalion, 503rd Infantry Regiment (Airborne), talks on the radio while village elders and a Afghan National policeman walk down a mountain during a patrol to Omar in Kunar Province Afghanistan Jan. 11.

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