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U.S. Army Pfc. Joshua Spann, assigned to Bravo Company, Division Special Troops Battalion, 82nd Airborne Division, loads a belt of 7.62 mm NATO rifle rounds into his M-240B machine gun at a compound in the Kohi Safi district of Parwan province, Afghanistan, on Sept. 6, 2009.

Pfc. Joshua Spann loads a belt of 7.62 mm NATO rifle rounds into his M-240B machine gun.

U.S. Army Pfc. Joshua Spann, assigned to Bravo Company, Division Special Troops Battalion, 82nd Airborne Division, loads a belt of 7.62 mm NATO rifle rounds into his M-240B machine gun at a compound in the Kohi Safi district of Parwan province, Afghanistan, on Sept. 6, 2009.

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