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Members of the 1st Squardron, 14th Cavalry Regiment based at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Spc. Shane Sanders, left, looks out and Staff Sgt. Kevin Perkins looks through a scope at the Mizan Valley on their first visit to Observation Post Two on a hill overlooking COP Mizan (not visible) in Zabul Province, Afghanistan, March 27, 2012. (Peter Haley/Tacoma News Tribune/MCT)
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Lt. Jason Oberoi of the 1st Squardron, 14th Cavalry Regiment based in Joint Base Lewis-McChord meets with an elder, Mohammed Nayim (left), in the village of Mohammed Anwar Kalay in Mizan District, Zabul Province, Afghanistan, March 28, 2012. (Peter Haley/Tacoma News Tribune/MCT)
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Mohammed Zarif, the District Governor of Mizan offers a handshake to Lt. Col. Jim Dunivan of the 1st Squadron, 14th Cavalry Regiment, the incoming commander of COP Mizan, after receiving some gifts during a shura, in the town of Mizan in Zabul Province, Afghanistan, March 26, 2012. (Peter Haley/Tacoma News Tribune/MCT)
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Wind-up radios given by American forces sit next to tea and sweets offered in return in a meeting with members of the village of Mohammed Anwar Kalay in Mizan District, Zabul Province, Afghanistan, March 28, 2012. (Peter Haley/Tacoma News Tribune/MCT)
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Capt. Greg Benjamin, of Boise, Idaho and of Ft. Wainwright's 1st Battalion, 24th Infantry Regiment, splits up his gift of a rare, out-of-season pomegranate in order to share it during a shura with Mohammed Zarif, the District Governor of Mizan District and officers of the 1-24 and 1st Squadron, 14th Cavalry Regiment in Mizan, Zabul Province, Afghanistan, March 26, 2012. (Peter Haley/Tacoma News Tribune/MCT)
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Afghan National Army Lt. Col. Said Mohammed salutes his troops at an ANA checkpoint on the Qalat to Mizan Road in Zabul Province, Afghanistan, March 26, 2012. (Peter Haley/Tacoma News Tribune/MCT)
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Lt. Col. Jeffrey Stewart (right) and Command Sgt. Major James Coroy (center), both from 1st Battalion, 24th Infantry Regiment from Ft. Wainwright, Alaska, and an interpreter, thank the District Governor of Mizan and others after a shura at the District Governor's office near COP Mizan in Zabul Province, Afghanistan, March 26, 2012. (Peter Haley/Tacoma News Tribune/MCT)
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An Afghan National Army soldier stands in a guard tower as American helicopters fly away from Combat Outpost Mizan in Zabul Province, Afghanistan, March 27, 2012. (Peter Haley/Tacoma News Tribune/MCT)
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