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U.S. Marines direct the crew of a CH-53E Super Stallion helicopter as it prepares to pick up a rotor head from a downed CH-53E near Al Qa'im, Iraq, on Dec. 15, 2006. Marines with Heavy Marine Helicopter Squadron 465 are deployed with I Marine Expeditionary Force in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom.

U.S. Marines direct the crew of a CH-53E Super Stallion helicopter.

U.S. Marines direct the crew of a CH-53E Super Stallion helicopter as it prepares to pick up a rotor head from a downed CH-53E near Al Qa'im, Iraq, on Dec. 15, 2006. Marines with Heavy Marine Helicopter Squadron 465 are deployed with I Marine Expeditionary Force in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom.

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