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Army Spc. Joe Browning uses a metal detector to search for buried weapons caches and materials used to make improvised explosive devices during a neighborhood patrol in Mosul, Iraq, on March 18, 2006. Browning is attached to the 2nd Battalion, 1st Infantry Regiment, 172nd Infantry Brigade.

Army Spc. Joe Browning uses a metal detector to search for buried weapons caches.

Army Spc. Joe Browning uses a metal detector to search for buried weapons caches and materials used to make improvised explosive devices during a neighborhood patrol in Mosul, Iraq, on March 18, 2006. Browning is attached to the 2nd Battalion, 1st Infantry Regiment, 172nd Infantry Brigade.

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