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U.S. Army soldiers, with Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1st Battalion, 32nd Infantry Regiment, 10th Mountain Division, set up a defensive position with an M-240B machine gun on a road outside Forward Operating Base Joyce in Kunar province, Afghanistan, on June 30, 2009.

U.S. Army soldiers set up a defensive position with an M-240B machine gun.

U.S. Army soldiers, with Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1st Battalion, 32nd Infantry Regiment, 10th Mountain Division, set up a defensive position with an M-240B machine gun on a road outside Forward Operating Base Joyce in Kunar province, Afghanistan, on June 30, 2009.

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