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Battleland Diary, Feb. 04-10
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Members of the U.S. Army's 2nd Battalion, 28th Infantry Regiment, on a mission in the Charbaran Valley, Paktika Province, Afghanistan, in this image shot Sept. 27, 2011, and released Feb. 5, 2012.