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Piero, a military working dog looks on from the gunner's window of an UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter during loading procedures on Joint Security Station Istaqlal, Feb. 15, 2009. The soldiers are assigned to the 56th Stryker Brigade Combat Team. Piero trains with other soldiers and their Iraqi security force partners on air-assault operations in areas north of Baghdad.

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Piero, a military working dog looks on from the gunner's window of an UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter during loading procedures on Joint Security Station Istaqlal, Feb. 15, 2009. The soldiers are assigned to the 56th Stryker Brigade Combat Team. Piero trains with other soldiers and their Iraqi security force partners on air-assault operations in areas north of Baghdad.

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