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Iraqi national police officers run inside a CH-47 Chinook helicopter after completing Operation Winged Lion II, an Iraqi-led air assault clearance operationin the Ma’dain region outside eastern Baghdad, Iraq, June 26, 2009. More than 240 Iraqi police and U.S. Army soldiers conducted the mission to deny enemy movement into the city, collect intelligence and search for weapons caches.

AIR ASSAULT MISSION

Iraqi national police officers run inside a CH-47 Chinook helicopter after completing Operation Winged Lion II, an Iraqi-led air assault clearance operationin the Ma’dain region outside eastern Baghdad, Iraq, June 26, 2009. More than 240 Iraqi police and U.S. Army soldiers conducted the mission to deny enemy movement into the city, collect intelligence and search for weapons caches.

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