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U.S. Marine Corps Cpl. David Chancellor, a guard at Marine Barracks Washington, confronts two simulated adversaries after being sprayed with oleoresin capsicum pepper spray during nonlethal tactics training at Marine Barracks Washington, D.C., Feb. 17, 2009. Chancellor, among others, qualified as a user and instructor of pepper spray.

SEEING RED

U.S. Marine Corps Cpl. David Chancellor, a guard at Marine Barracks Washington, confronts two simulated adversaries after being sprayed with oleoresin capsicum pepper spray during nonlethal tactics training at Marine Barracks Washington, D.C., Feb. 17, 2009. Chancellor, among others, qualified as a user and instructor of pepper spray.

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