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Soldiers take a break in a secure area before heading back out on their eight-hour patrol of the streets of Ameriah, a suburb of Baghdad, Iraq, on May 21, 2006. The soldiers are from Alpha Company, 1st Battalion, 87th Infantry Regiment, 10th Mountain Division, Fort Drum, N.Y.

Soldiers take a break in a secure area.

Soldiers take a break in a secure area before heading back out on their eight-hour patrol of the streets of Ameriah, a suburb of Baghdad, Iraq, on May 21, 2006. The soldiers are from Alpha Company, 1st Battalion, 87th Infantry Regiment, 10th Mountain Division, Fort Drum, N.Y.

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