Dusty skies set in as a lone Virginia National Guard Soldier from 1st Battalion, 116th Infantry Regiment, headquartered in Lynchburg, Va., looks down across a valley from the Ziggurat of Ur near the Tallil Airbase in Iraq. The 1/116th is currently deployed with the Louisiana National Guard's 256th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 13th Sustainment Command (Expeditionary) in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. (Photo by 1st Lt. Angela Fry, Louisiana National Guard)
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A North Carolina Guardsman with 30th Heavy Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division scans his sector of fire while providing security at a schoolhouse during a human terrain team site survey mission in Kilabeen, Iraq, Sept. 15, 2009. (DoD photo by Spc. Benjamin Boren, U.S. Army/Released)
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253rd Military Police (MP) Company Soldier, Spc. Michael Curtis, from Knoxville, Tenn., operates the Mine Resistant Ambush Protected Common Driver Trainer (MRAP CDT) simulator during training at Army Support Activity-Dix (ASA-Dix) April 8. Curtis and his unit, a Tennessee Army National Guard organization from Lenoir City, Tenn., are at ASA-Dix to prepare for an upcoming deployment to Iraq to train the Iraqi police force. (Photo by Ryan Morton, ASA-Dix Public Affairs)
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Louisiana National Guardsman Spc. Patrick Rigney with New Orleans' 1-141 Field Artillery Battalion completes his pre-combat checks and inspections before an evening convoy from Camp Adder, Iraq. The 1-141 is currently deployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom with the 256th Infantry Brigade Combat Team. (U.S. Army Photo By Photo by 1st Lt. Angela Fry)
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Air Force Tech. Sgt. Matt Loiselle, Personal Security Advisor for the Air Component Coordination Element Director, discusses transportation information with a member of the personal security detail while inside the U.S. Embassy compound, Baghdad, Iraq, March 24, 2010. Sergeant Loiselle has been in charge of three teams consisting of 40 Army personnel, who were deployed from locations such as the Kentucky and Tennessee Army National Guard units and he trained them to be part of this team. (U.S. Air Force photo/Master Sgt. Trish Bunting/Released)
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