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U.S. Army 1st Lt. Matthew Hilderbrand, left, writes down grid coordiantes off a map from Staff Sgt. Kevin Sentieri, right, during a break while patroling across a plateau in search of a weapons cache outside Combat Outpost Sangar in Zabul province, Afghanistan, June 27, 2010. Hilderbrand and Sentieri are assigned to Company D, 1st Battalion, 4th Infantry Regiment, U.S. Army Europe.

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U.S. Army 1st Lt. Matthew Hilderbrand, left, writes down grid coordiantes off a map from Staff Sgt. Kevin Sentieri, right, during a break while patroling across a plateau in search of a weapons cache outside Combat Outpost Sangar in Zabul province, Afghanistan, June 27, 2010. Hilderbrand and Sentieri are assigned to Company D, 1st Battalion, 4th Infantry Regiment, U.S. Army Europe.

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