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Military Photos: A Month Inside the Armed Forces, September
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A French soldier stands in Naghlu base, Afghanistan, Sept. 24, 2012. France is the fifth largest contributor to NATO's International Security Assistance Force, which is due to pull out the vast majority of its 130,000 troops by the end of 2014.