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Battleland Diary, March 3-9
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Spc. Erica Taliaferro from 549th MP Company, Task Force Bronco, eats an MRE sandwich with an ISAF Afghan police trainer inside an armored vehicle as troops spent 15-hours stretches in their vehicles during a two-day U.S-Afghan military mission removing roadside bombs in Nangarhar province, Afghanistan, March 8, 2012.
