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A CH-47 Chinook helicopter leaves Al Asad Air Base, Iraq, after its companion helicopter completed a low-cost, low-altitude aerial resupply exercise with U.S. Army paratroopers, May 15, 2010. The soldiers are assigned to the 82nd Airborne Division's 307th Brigade Support Battalion, 1st Brigade, Advise and Assist Brigade, and the helicopter crew is assigned to the 1st Infantry Division's Company B, 2nd General Support Aviation Battalion, 1st Aviation Regiment, Combat Aviation Brigade.

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A CH-47 Chinook helicopter leaves Al Asad Air Base, Iraq, after its companion helicopter completed a low-cost, low-altitude aerial resupply exercise with U.S. Army paratroopers, May 15, 2010. The soldiers are assigned to the 82nd Airborne Division's 307th Brigade Support Battalion, 1st Brigade, Advise and Assist Brigade, and the helicopter crew is assigned to the 1st Infantry Division's Company B, 2nd General Support Aviation Battalion, 1st Aviation Regiment, Combat Aviation Brigade.

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