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U.S. Army Spc. Jon Staib, a route clearance driver and gunner, trains an Iraqi army soldier to operate the controls of a husky engineer vehicle to lower and raise the arm and detonate possible improvised explosive devices during route clearance missions in a training exercise on a Contingency Operating Base Speicher, Tikrit, Iraq, June 26, 2008. Staib is assigned to the 326th Engineers Battalion, 58th Combat Engineers Company, 18th Engineer Brigade.

HUSKY TRAINING

U.S. Army Spc. Jon Staib, a route clearance driver and gunner, trains an Iraqi army soldier to operate the controls of a husky engineer vehicle to lower and raise the arm and detonate possible improvised explosive devices during route clearance missions in a training exercise on a Contingency Operating Base Speicher, Tikrit, Iraq, June 26, 2008. Staib is assigned to the 326th Engineers Battalion, 58th Combat Engineers Company, 18th Engineer Brigade.

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