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A Ft. Bragg-based Blackhawk helicopter causes a dust storm as it lands outside Forward Operating Base Nawbahar, November 14, 2009. (Chuck Liddy/Raleigh News & Observer/MCT) (CHUCK LIDDY/MCT)

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