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U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Derek Keener prepares a 105mm rocket to be fired at a weapons cache at the East River Range near Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan, on Dec. 2, 2004. Members of the Air Force's 455th Explosive ordnance Group set C-4 charges on the cache in order to destroy it.

Staff Sgt. Derek Keener prepares a 105mm rocket to be fired.

U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Derek Keener prepares a 105mm rocket to be fired at a weapons cache at the East River Range near Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan, on Dec. 2, 2004. Members of the Air Force's 455th Explosive ordnance Group set C-4 charges on the cache in order to destroy it.

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