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Right to left; U.S. Army Spc. Osvaldo Martinez, Sgt. Bernice Macias, Spc. John Green and Staff Sgt. Joshua Sekutera move out with buckets in the Bucket Brigade competition, where teams must douse a "burning" house as part of the Fire Muster event on Joint Base Balad, Iraq, Aug. 9, 2009. The soldiers are assigned to the 163d Military Intelligence Battalion. The event is complete when the water thrown from the buckets fills a barrel.

BUCKET BRIGADE

Right to left; U.S. Army Spc. Osvaldo Martinez, Sgt. Bernice Macias, Spc. John Green and Staff Sgt. Joshua Sekutera move out with buckets in the Bucket Brigade competition, where teams must douse a "burning" house as part of the Fire Muster event on Joint Base Balad, Iraq, Aug. 9, 2009. The soldiers are assigned to the 163d Military Intelligence Battalion. The event is complete when the water thrown from the buckets fills a barrel.

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