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U.S. Army Pfc. Franklin Sullivan low crawls inches below barbed wire at the Sand Hill confidence course on the fifth day of one station unit training on Fort Benning, Ga., Nov. 3, 2009. Sullivan, an infantry recruit assigned to Company B, 1st Battalion, 19th Infantry Regiment, 198th Infantry Brigade, was among nearly 200 new recruits to go through the course, which included 25 obstacles.

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U.S. Army Pfc. Franklin Sullivan low crawls inches below barbed wire at the Sand Hill confidence course on the fifth day of one station unit training on Fort Benning, Ga., Nov. 3, 2009. Sullivan, an infantry recruit assigned to Company B, 1st Battalion, 19th Infantry Regiment, 198th Infantry Brigade, was among nearly 200 new recruits to go through the course, which included 25 obstacles.

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