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U.S. Army Chief Warrant Officer Leonard Pearson checks his navigation instruments before going on a mission aboard a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter from Forward Operating Base Diamondback near Mosul, Iraq, Oct. 21, 2009. Pearson is assigned to Company C, 3rd Battalion, 25th Aviation Regiment, Forward Support Medevac Team.

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U.S. Army Chief Warrant Officer Leonard Pearson checks his navigation instruments before going on a mission aboard a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter from Forward Operating Base Diamondback near Mosul, Iraq, Oct. 21, 2009. Pearson is assigned to Company C, 3rd Battalion, 25th Aviation Regiment, Forward Support Medevac Team.

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