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U.S. Marine Lance Cpl. Alec N. Temples provides security while fellow scouts search old bunkers in western Anbar province, Iraq, May 2, 2008. Temples is assigned to Charlie Company, 2nd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, Regimental Combat Team 5.

ANBAR SCOUT

U.S. Marine Lance Cpl. Alec N. Temples provides security while fellow scouts search old bunkers in western Anbar province, Iraq, May 2, 2008. Temples is assigned to Charlie Company, 2nd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, Regimental Combat Team 5.

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