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U.S. Army soldiers and Afghan border police walk a snowy ridgeline as they leave Observation Point 12 along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border to a waiting UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter in the Kunar province of Afghanistan on Jan. 21, 2013.

U.S. Army soldiers and Afghan border police walk a snowy ridgeline

U.S. Army soldiers and Afghan border police walk a snowy ridgeline as they leave Observation Point 12 along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border to a waiting UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter in the Kunar province of Afghanistan on Jan. 21, 2013.

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