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Air Force TSgt Tyler Woodson, 20, of Macon, looks out at a mountain top southwest of Jalalabad in search of a place to drop a warning bomb if his fellow guardsman come under attack. He chose the flattened portion of the mountain. In an effort to reduce civilian casualties, the the military is now looking for alternative tactics, like warning air strikes. (Nancy Youssef/MCT)
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Capt. Roger Brooks, 36, of Dallas, Georgia, 165th Air Support Operations Squadron, the GA Air National Guard out of Brunswick, Georgia, looks over the terrain after a local construction worker stops the convoy passing by and alerts them that he found an IED. Brooks and his fellow guardsman wait for a special Army unit to arrive and properly destroy the device. (Nancy Youssef/MCT)
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Capt. Roger Brooks, 36, of Dallas, Georgia, 165th Air Support Operations Squadron, the GA Air National Guard out of Brunswick, Georgia, listens as ground troops from the Georgia National Guard huddle before a day's mission to determine what kind of air support they may need. (Nancy Youssef/MCT)
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Capt. Roger Brooks, 36, of Dallas, Georgia, 165th Air Support Operations Squadron, the GA Air National Guard out of Brunswick, Georgia, watches Army guardsman investigate a suspected IED planted in front of a police station. Suspicious about how anyone could plant an IED in such a cramped village, Brooks called in an F-15 to drop flares minutes earlier in an effort to warn potential enemies. (Nancy Youssef/MCT)
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Capt. Roger Brooks, 36, of Dallas, Georgia, 165th Air Support Operations Squadron, the GA Air National Guard out of Brunswick, Georgia, forefront, stands next to the Pakistani-made IEDs discovered in front of a police station in a small village just outside Jalalabad. (Nancy Youssef/MCT)
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