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Marine Cpl. Jarret Bulskil of Kilo Company, 3rd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, uses a K-Bar bayonet to search the ground for any mines or other ordnance that may be shallowly buried during a sweeping patrol with Iraqi soldiers through Haditha, Iraq, on Dec. 21, 2005.

Marine Cpl. Jarret Bulskil uses a K-Bar bayonet to search the ground for any mines.

Marine Cpl. Jarret Bulskil of Kilo Company, 3rd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, uses a K-Bar bayonet to search the ground for any mines or other ordnance that may be shallowly buried during a sweeping patrol with Iraqi soldiers through Haditha, Iraq, on Dec. 21, 2005.

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