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Standing by on a hill top, soldiers with the 101st Division Special Troops Battalion, 101st Airborne Division watch as two Chinook helicopters fly in to take them back to Bagram Air Field, Afghanistan, Nov. 4, 2008. The soldiers searched a small village in the valley below for improvised explosive device-making materials and facilities.

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Standing by on a hill top, soldiers with the 101st Division Special Troops Battalion, 101st Airborne Division watch as two Chinook helicopters fly in to take them back to Bagram Air Field, Afghanistan, Nov. 4, 2008. The soldiers searched a small village in the valley below for improvised explosive device-making materials and facilities.

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