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An Air Force pararescueman does a back flip out as he exits a U.S. Air Force HC-130P Hercules in a parachute jump over the Gulf of Tadjoura, Djibouti, on March 28, 2006. The pararescueman is attached to the 304th Expeditionary Rescue Squadron deployed to the Horn of Africa from Portland, Ore.

An Air Force pararescueman does a back flip.

An Air Force pararescueman does a back flip out as he exits a U.S. Air Force HC-130P Hercules in a parachute jump over the Gulf of Tadjoura, Djibouti, on March 28, 2006. The pararescueman is attached to the 304th Expeditionary Rescue Squadron deployed to the Horn of Africa from Portland, Ore.

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