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U.S. Army Pfc. Nicholas Weeks plays an Afghan checkers-style game with Nas Nahs, an interpreter, in the Kohi Safi district, Afghanistan, Sept. 6, 2009. Weeks is assigned to the 82nd Airborne Division’s Company B, Special Troops Battalion.

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U.S. Army Pfc. Nicholas Weeks plays an Afghan checkers-style game with Nas Nahs, an interpreter, in the Kohi Safi district, Afghanistan, Sept. 6, 2009. Weeks is assigned to the 82nd Airborne Division’s Company B, Special Troops Battalion.

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