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Staff Sgt. Karl Ferree raises a lead rope over the skeleton of a big top shelter at Balad Air Base, Iraq, May 7, 2008. Sergeant Ferree is assigned to the 332nd Expeditionary Civil Engineer Squadron structural engineer division deployed from Luke Air Force Base, Ariz.

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Staff Sgt. Karl Ferree raises a lead rope over the skeleton of a big top shelter at Balad Air Base, Iraq, May 7, 2008. Sergeant Ferree is assigned to the 332nd Expeditionary Civil Engineer Squadron structural engineer division deployed from Luke Air Force Base, Ariz.

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