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A Ch-47F Chinook helicopter assigned to 3-82nd General Support Aviation Battalion flies through southern Afghanistan in the Kandahar Province during a re-supply mission. (Chuck Liddy/Raleigh News & Observer/MCT) (CHUCK LIDDY/MCT)

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