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U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Patrick Kelly, with the 532nd Expeditionary Security Forces Squadron Lion Team, test fires his .50-caliber machine gun before a force protection patrol outside Joint Base Balad, Iraq, on Oct. 17, 2009.

Senior Airman Patrick Kelly test fires his .50-caliber machine gun.

U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Patrick Kelly, with the 532nd Expeditionary Security Forces Squadron Lion Team, test fires his .50-caliber machine gun before a force protection patrol outside Joint Base Balad, Iraq, on Oct. 17, 2009.

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