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| A Fight in Afghanistan |
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| A map of Afghanistan showing the Kandahar and Spin Boldak areas. |
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| A U.S. Army soldier of the 82nd Airborne Division, from Fort Bragg, North Carolina, secures the perimeter as a CH-47D Chinook helicopter takes off in the background on Monday, 29 July 2002, in the village of Qiqay, 32 kilometers (20 miles) southeast of Khost, Afghanistan. Eight months into the war in Afghanistan, conventional soldiers continue to drop into small villages in search of hidden weapons and equipment left by retreating Taliban and al-Qaeda forces. |
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| U.S. Army Specialist (SPC E-4) Beau Rheaume, of Sacramento, California, right, and Private First Class (PFC E-3) Jeffery Wiekamp, of Utopia, Texas, work on a Chinook helicopter at the U.S. military base in Kandahar, Afghanistan, on Wednesday, 7 August 2002. |
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| A Chinook helicopter tail gunner from the 101st Airborne Division, Fort Campbell, Kentucky, prepares his flight suit before a mission at the U.S. Military base in Kandahar, Afghanistan on Saturday, 10 August 2002. Hundreds of Airborne troops flew to the village of Malakay, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from the Pakistan border, where they searched homes and confiscated weapons. |
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| A U.S. Army CH-47D Chinook helicopter carries troops back to their base from the village of Malakay, Afghanistan, on Sunday, 11 August 2002. Airborne troops withdrew from the village of Malakay, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from the Pakistan border, after searching homes and confiscating weapons. |
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| During recent operations, U.S. Troops from various units within the 82nd Airborne Division prepare to board a CH-47D Chinook helicopter to be inserted into the battle field as part of Operation Mountain Sweep. The troops were flying from Kandahar Afghanistan to the Paktia Province in Afghanistan. The exact dates and locations was not made available by the Army. |
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| During recent operations, U.S. troops from the 82nd Airborne Division board a CH-47D Chinook helicopter to head out on Operation Mountain Sweep. The CH-47D was flying them from Kandahar to the Paktia Province of Afghanistan. The exact dates and locations was not made available by the Army. |
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| During recent operations, Sergeant William L. Adrox (left), Specialist Adam H. Peddicord (center), and Specialist Paul Tuimavave (right), of Charlie Company, 307th Engineer Battalion, 82nd Airborne Division, sit below an American Flag on a CH-47D Chinook helicopter enroute from Kandahar to the Paktia province of Afghanistan to partake in Operation Mountain Sweep. The exact dates and locations was not made available by the Army. |
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| A CH-47D Chinook Helicopter from Bravo Company, 7th Battalion, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) flies back to Kandahar after dropping troops off in support of operation Mountain Sweep, in this photo dated 19 August 2002. |
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| Troops from various units within the 82nd Airborne Division prepare to board a CH-47D Chinook helicopter from the 101st Airborne Division, to be inserted into the battle field as part of Operation Mountain Sweep, in this photo dated 19 August 2002. The troops were flying from Kandahar, Afghanistan to the Paktia Province in Afghanistan. |
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| PFC Michael Braun, left, the Tail Gunner and SGT Andrew Lau, the Flight Engineer, from Bravo Company, 7th Battalion, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) aboard a CH-47D Chinook Helicopter en route back from the Paktia province to Kandahar, in this photo dated 19 August 2002. The CH-47D had just completed inserting troops from the 82nd Airborne Division as part of Operation Mountain Sweep. |
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| Troops from various units of the 82nd Airborne Division air assault out of the back of a CH-47D Chinook helicopter in a landing zone in the Paktia Province of Afghanistan as part of Operation Mountain Sweep, in this photo dated 19 August 2002. |
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| U.S. soldiers from the 82nd Airborne Division secure an area after being transported by Chinook helicopters during Operation Mountain Sweep in Narizah, about 100 miles southeast of Kabul and near the border with Pakistan, on 22 August 2002. |
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