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As seen through a night-vision device, U.S. and Afghan National Army soldiers scale treacherous terrain in the dead of night using the cover of night to move into suspicious villages on a mountainside in the Pech River Valley in eastern Afghanistan's Kunar Province, Nov. 23, 2010. The U.S. soldiers are assigned to Company B, 1st Battalion, 327th Infantry Regiment, Task Force Bulldog.

TREACHEROUS TERRAIN

As seen through a night-vision device, U.S. and Afghan National Army soldiers scale treacherous terrain in the dead of night using the cover of night to move into suspicious villages on a mountainside in the Pech River Valley in eastern Afghanistan's Kunar Province, Nov. 23, 2010. The U.S. soldiers are assigned to Company B, 1st Battalion, 327th Infantry Regiment, Task Force Bulldog.

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