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U.S. Marine Corps Staff Sgt. Christopher Malloy, landing support chief, Combat Logistics Battalion 46, observes as an MV-22 Osprey aircraft hovers above an M777 howitzer during an airlift operation at Landing Zone Sandhill at the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center, Twentynine Palms, Calif., on July 10, 2009.

Staff Sgt. Christopher Malloy observes as an MV-22 Osprey aircraft hovers above an M777 howitzer.

U.S. Marine Corps Staff Sgt. Christopher Malloy, landing support chief, Combat Logistics Battalion 46, observes as an MV-22 Osprey aircraft hovers above an M777 howitzer during an airlift operation at Landing Zone Sandhill at the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center, Twentynine Palms, Calif., on July 10, 2009.

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