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Nathan A. Elkins, assistant regional coordinator of the Governor’s Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness, and Louisiana National Guardsmen discuss the day's mission to help contain the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in Belle Chasse, La., May 6, 2010.

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Nathan A. Elkins, assistant regional coordinator of the Governor’s Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness, and Louisiana National Guardsmen discuss the day's mission to help contain the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in Belle Chasse, La., May 6, 2010.

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