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Coalition soldiers work as a team to stack ordnance in preparation for detonation in an undisclosed area near Kandahar City, Afghanistan, on May 12, 2005. U.S. Army soldiers, Romanian soldiers, and members of the British Royal Air Force are involved in a joint effort to demolish 10 tons of ordnance that was either confiscated during various cordon searches or belonged to coalition forces and was determined to be unusable.

Coalition soldiers work as a team to stack ordnance in preparation for detonation.

Coalition soldiers work as a team to stack ordnance in preparation for detonation in an undisclosed area near Kandahar City, Afghanistan, on May 12, 2005. U.S. Army soldiers, Romanian soldiers, and members of the British Royal Air Force are involved in a joint effort to demolish 10 tons of ordnance that was either confiscated during various cordon searches or belonged to coalition forces and was determined to be unusable.

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