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A runner nears the half-way point of the 2008 Army 10-miler on Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan, as a C-130 takes off Oct. 5, 2008. The 189th Combat Service Support Battalion sponsored the run so that coalition troops, civilian employees and contractors in Kandahar could join the thousands of other runners around the world participating in the event.

KANDAHAR AND COUNTING

A runner nears the half-way point of the 2008 Army 10-miler on Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan, as a C-130 takes off Oct. 5, 2008. The 189th Combat Service Support Battalion sponsored the run so that coalition troops, civilian employees and contractors in Kandahar could join the thousands of other runners around the world participating in the event.

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