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Two-year-old Faith Marie Adams reaches for one of the U.S. flags fromher father, Army Spc. Christian M. Adams' coffin, during militaryhonors ceremonies at the Main Post Chapel on Fort Huachuca, Arizona onTuesday, June, 22, 2010.
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Soldiers of A Company from the 1st Battalion of Royal Gurkha Rifles andAfghan National Police patrol in Nahr e Saraj village, in Helmand, onJune 24, 2010.
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A member of a US Army Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) team stands atthe entrance to a container wearing a bomb disposal suit prior to anexercise at Camp Nathan Smith in Kandahar City on June 15, 2010.
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U.S. Army soldiers carry a critically wounded American soldier on astretcher to an awaiting MEDEVAC helicopter from Charlie Co. SixthBattalion, 101st Airborne Combat Aviation Brigade, Task Force ShadowJune 24, 2010 near Kandahar, Afghanistan.
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A soldier shields himself from rotor wash as a U.S. Army MEDEVAChelicopter from Charlie Co. Sixth Battalion, 101st Airborne CombatAviation Brigade, Task Force Shadow takes off from a field afterpicking up wounded Afghan National Army soldiers June 22, 2010 nearKandahar, Afghanistan.
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A U.S. Army soldier looks up as Navy Hospital Corpsmen cleans driedblood off his face after he was hurt in an explosion on the battlefieldin Kandahar province at the Kandahar Role 3 Hospital on June 18, 2010at Kandahar Air Field, Afghanistan.
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Phillip Serwinowski (center), father of Lance Cpl. Timothy G.Serwinowski, rests his head on the forehead of Marine Lance Cpl. NathanMcCormack of Garden City, Michigan as he presents the flag to thefamily outside Amigone Funeral Home on Sheridan Dr. in Tonawanda, NewYork on Saturday, June 26, 2010.
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A wounded Afghan National Army soldier looks at his bloody hand as heis airlifted from a field in a U.S. Army MEDEVAC helicopter fromCharlie Co. Sixth Battalion, 101st Airborne Combat Aviation Brigade,Task Force Shadow June 21, 2010 in Qandahar, Afghanistan.
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A local boy is questioned by Afghan police and the U.S. Army's 82ndAirborne Division if he recognizes the body of a suspected Talibanbomber lying below June 22, 2010 in the Khushi Khona area ofAfghanistan, in Herat Province. The suspect was shot by forces in the82nd Airborne during a brief firefight the day before, and his body wasfound later, containing detonators and other bomb-making materials.
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Friends and family of Private Douglas Halliday approach a hearse as thecortege carrying the bodies of seven British soldiers and Marineskilled in Afghanistan pass along the High Street on June 29, 2010 inWootton Bassett, England.
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Members of the Royal Canadian Regiment stand on a Light Armored Vehicle(LAV) as they put on body armour at Camp Nathan Smith on June 16, 2010,prior to a patrol in Kandahar.
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An Afghan National Police officer returns fire during contact withinsurgents at a field outside a village in Nahr e Saraj, in Helmand, onJune 26, 2010
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This June 4, 2010 picture shows the starry desert night over CampHansen at Marjah, in the Helmand province of Afghanistan.
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An honor guard carries the casket of Sergeant Martin Rene Goudreault tothe hearse and past family members at Canadian Forces Base Trenton June9, 2010. Sgt. Goudreault was killed after an improvised explosivedevice detonated during a foot patrol, southwest of Kandahar City inAfghanistan June 6, 2010.
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Sgt. Alex Cabana of the 2nd Combat Engineer Regiment of the CanadianArmy walks during a foot patrol with U.S. Army forces June 13, 2010 inrural Dand District, just south of Kandahar, Afghanistan.
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Afghan miners work in a coal mine 100 km east of the western city ofHerat on June 26, 2010 in Afghanistan.
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An Afghan policeman walks in front of a burning U.S. armored vehiclewhich was hit by a suicide bomber in Nangahar province June 6, 2010.
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Four Taliban members are presented to the media after they were detained during an operation in Ghazni province June 13, 2010.
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Cpl. Casey Liffrig leaps for cover while Lt. Thomas Goodman gets downas Taliban fighters ambush U.S. soldiers
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A German soldier watches as a defensive flare is fired from hishelicopter to prevent missiles from hitting the aircraft, on the way toKunduz, Afghanistan
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Taliban fighters pose with weapons in an undisclosed location in Afghanistan
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U.S. soldier PV2 John MacIntosh takes cover in farm field and scans theridge line as Taliban fighters ambush U.S soldiers
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U.S soldiers from the 2nd Battalion, 12th Infantry Regiment, 4thBrigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division return fire after theirpatrol in the Pech Valley of Afghanistan's Kunar province was ambushedby Taliban fighters
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U.S. military personnel watch movies on their laptops at Orgun-E Camp
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MacAidan Gallegos, 5, receives a flag from Brigadier General SeanMacFarland as Amanda Doyle, MacAidan's mother, watches during thefuneral services for Army Sgt. Justin Gallegos at Evergreen Cemetery inTucson, Ariz.
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US Marines from Fox Company 2nd Battalion 3rd Marines and AfghanNational Army soldiers patrol as a controlled detonation explodes inthe distance, during day four of Operation Germinate into the restiveBhuji Bhast Pass in Farah Province, southern Afghanistan
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US Army soldiers in the 1/501st of the 25th Infantry Division shieldtheir faces from the powerful rotor wash of a Chinook cargo helicopteras they are picked up from a mission in PaktikaProvince, Afghanistan.
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US Army Specialist Kingsley (L), of 2nd Platoon, Baker Company, 2-12Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division,fires on enemy positions as Private First Class Kicklighter (R) ducksbehind his machine gun during an ambush at the village of Lanyal in theKorengal Valley, Kunar Province, eastern Afghanistan
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A CH-53 helicopter releases flares after being shot at from the groundwhile flying over Helmand Province, southern Afghanistan
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Maj. Gen. William Freeman hands a flag to Shelby Summers, daughter ofArmy Sgt. 1st Class Severin West Summers III, of Bentonia, Mississippi,at Arlington National Cemetery
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National Army firing a machine gun during night trainingat their training base close to Rish Khoor village near Kabul,Afghanistan.
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Pfc. Shiquinn Bell from Holly Hill, S.C., a member of the U.S. Army's3rd Battalion, 509th Infantry Regiment (Airborne), based at FortRichardson, Alaska, plays his guitar at a base in Zerok District, EastPaktika province in Afghanistan,
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Soldiers from the U.S. Army's 3rd Battalion, 509th Infantry Regiment(Airborne), based at Fort Richardson, Alaska, fire a 120mm mortarduring a fire mission at the combat outpost Zerok in East Paktikaprovince in Afghanistan,
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US Marines from 2/3 Fox company watch as parachutes loaded equipmentsto resupply their base in Farah Province, southern Afghanistan
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A Canadian soldier works out using a makeshift weight made from barbedwire and rods, in the Panjwaii district of Kandahar province
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A U.S. soldier from the 3-71 Cavalry fires his weapon during agun-battle with Taliban fighters in the village of Bargematal, Nuristanprovince
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Spc. Ken *+%%#, 19, of Greenville, Tennessee, holds the hand of anothersoldier as they both lie wounded side by side in a medivac helicopterafter their armored vehicle hit an improvised explosive device in theTangi Valley of Afghanistan's Wardak Province
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Artillerymen fire a 155mm Howitzer at a Taliban position
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A Canadian soldier door gunner from NATO-led coalition opens fire witha machine gun from a CH-146 Griffon helicopter as it flies overneighbourhood in Kandahar province, southern Afghanistan,
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The uniform of a U.S. Army soldier lies on the floor of the trauma wardsoaked with blood after being cut off of him after he was hurt in anexplosion on the battlefield in Kandahar province at the Kandahar Role3 Hospital
 
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Two-year-old Faith Marie Adams reaches for one of the U.S. flags fromher father, Army Spc. Christian M. Adams' coffin, during militaryhonors ceremonies at the Main Post Chapel on Fort Huachuca, Arizona onTuesday, June, 22, 2010.
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Soldiers of A Company from the 1st Battalion of Royal Gurkha Rifles andAfghan National Police patrol in Nahr e Saraj village, in Helmand, onJune 24, 2010.
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A member of a US Army Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) team stands atthe entrance to a container wearing a bomb disposal suit prior to anexercise at Camp Nathan Smith in Kandahar City on June 15, 2010.
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U.S. Army soldiers carry a critically wounded American soldier on astretcher to an awaiting MEDEVAC helicopter from Charlie Co. SixthBattalion, 101st Airborne Combat Aviation Brigade, Task Force ShadowJune 24, 2010 near Kandahar, Afghanistan.
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A soldier shields himself from rotor wash as a U.S. Army MEDEVAChelicopter from Charlie Co. Sixth Battalion, 101st Airborne CombatAviation Brigade, Task Force Shadow takes off from a field afterpicking up wounded Afghan National Army soldiers June 22, 2010 nearKandahar, Afghanistan.
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A U.S. Army soldier looks up as Navy Hospital Corpsmen cleans driedblood off his face after he was hurt in an explosion on the battlefieldin Kandahar province at the Kandahar Role 3 Hospital on June 18, 2010at Kandahar Air Field, Afghanistan.
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Phillip Serwinowski (center), father of Lance Cpl. Timothy G.Serwinowski, rests his head on the forehead of Marine Lance Cpl. NathanMcCormack of Garden City, Michigan as he presents the flag to thefamily outside Amigone Funeral Home on Sheridan Dr. in Tonawanda, NewYork on Saturday, June 26, 2010.
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A wounded Afghan National Army soldier looks at his bloody hand as heis airlifted from a field in a U.S. Army MEDEVAC helicopter fromCharlie Co. Sixth Battalion, 101st Airborne Combat Aviation Brigade,Task Force Shadow June 21, 2010 in Qandahar, Afghanistan.
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A local boy is questioned by Afghan police and the U.S. Army's 82ndAirborne Division if he recognizes the body of a suspected Talibanbomber lying below June 22, 2010 in the Khushi Khona area ofAfghanistan, in Herat Province. The suspect was shot by forces in the82nd Airborne during a brief firefight the day before, and his body wasfound later, containing detonators and other bomb-making materials.
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Friends and family of Private Douglas Halliday approach a hearse as thecortege carrying the bodies of seven British soldiers and Marineskilled in Afghanistan pass along the High Street on June 29, 2010 inWootton Bassett, England.
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Members of the Royal Canadian Regiment stand on a Light Armored Vehicle(LAV) as they put on body armour at Camp Nathan Smith on June 16, 2010,prior to a patrol in Kandahar.
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An Afghan National Police officer returns fire during contact withinsurgents at a field outside a village in Nahr e Saraj, in Helmand, onJune 26, 2010
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This June 4, 2010 picture shows the starry desert night over CampHansen at Marjah, in the Helmand province of Afghanistan.
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An honor guard carries the casket of Sergeant Martin Rene Goudreault tothe hearse and past family members at Canadian Forces Base Trenton June9, 2010. Sgt. Goudreault was killed after an improvised explosivedevice detonated during a foot patrol, southwest of Kandahar City inAfghanistan June 6, 2010.
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Sgt. Alex Cabana of the 2nd Combat Engineer Regiment of the CanadianArmy walks during a foot patrol with U.S. Army forces June 13, 2010 inrural Dand District, just south of Kandahar, Afghanistan.
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Afghan miners work in a coal mine 100 km east of the western city ofHerat on June 26, 2010 in Afghanistan.
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An Afghan policeman walks in front of a burning U.S. armored vehiclewhich was hit by a suicide bomber in Nangahar province June 6, 2010.
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Four Taliban members are presented to the media after they were detained during an operation in Ghazni province June 13, 2010.
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Cpl. Casey Liffrig leaps for cover while Lt. Thomas Goodman gets downas Taliban fighters ambush U.S. soldiers
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A German soldier watches as a defensive flare is fired from hishelicopter to prevent missiles from hitting the aircraft, on the way toKunduz, Afghanistan
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Taliban fighters pose with weapons in an undisclosed location in Afghanistan
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U.S. soldier PV2 John MacIntosh takes cover in farm field and scans theridge line as Taliban fighters ambush U.S soldiers
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U.S soldiers from the 2nd Battalion, 12th Infantry Regiment, 4thBrigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division return fire after theirpatrol in the Pech Valley of Afghanistan's Kunar province was ambushedby Taliban fighters
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U.S. military personnel watch movies on their laptops at Orgun-E Camp
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MacAidan Gallegos, 5, receives a flag from Brigadier General SeanMacFarland as Amanda Doyle, MacAidan's mother, watches during thefuneral services for Army Sgt. Justin Gallegos at Evergreen Cemetery inTucson, Ariz.
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US Marines from Fox Company 2nd Battalion 3rd Marines and AfghanNational Army soldiers patrol as a controlled detonation explodes inthe distance, during day four of Operation Germinate into the restiveBhuji Bhast Pass in Farah Province, southern Afghanistan
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US Army soldiers in the 1/501st of the 25th Infantry Division shieldtheir faces from the powerful rotor wash of a Chinook cargo helicopteras they are picked up from a mission in PaktikaProvince, Afghanistan.
a29_20814805.jpg

US Army Specialist Kingsley (L), of 2nd Platoon, Baker Company, 2-12Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division,fires on enemy positions as Private First Class Kicklighter (R) ducksbehind his machine gun during an ambush at the village of Lanyal in theKorengal Valley, Kunar Province, eastern Afghanistan
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A CH-53 helicopter releases flares after being shot at from the groundwhile flying over Helmand Province, southern Afghanistan
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Maj. Gen. William Freeman hands a flag to Shelby Summers, daughter ofArmy Sgt. 1st Class Severin West Summers III, of Bentonia, Mississippi,at Arlington National Cemetery
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National Army firing a machine gun during night trainingat their training base close to Rish Khoor village near Kabul,Afghanistan.
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Pfc. Shiquinn Bell from Holly Hill, S.C., a member of the U.S. Army's3rd Battalion, 509th Infantry Regiment (Airborne), based at FortRichardson, Alaska, plays his guitar at a base in Zerok District, EastPaktika province in Afghanistan,
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Soldiers from the U.S. Army's 3rd Battalion, 509th Infantry Regiment(Airborne), based at Fort Richardson, Alaska, fire a 120mm mortarduring a fire mission at the combat outpost Zerok in East Paktikaprovince in Afghanistan,
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US Marines from 2/3 Fox company watch as parachutes loaded equipmentsto resupply their base in Farah Province, southern Afghanistan
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A Canadian soldier works out using a makeshift weight made from barbedwire and rods, in the Panjwaii district of Kandahar province
a12_20112911.jpg

A U.S. soldier from the 3-71 Cavalry fires his weapon during agun-battle with Taliban fighters in the village of Bargematal, Nuristanprovince
a13_20106443.jpg

Spc. Ken *+%%#, 19, of Greenville, Tennessee, holds the hand of anothersoldier as they both lie wounded side by side in a medivac helicopterafter their armored vehicle hit an improvised explosive device in theTangi Valley of Afghanistan's Wardak Province
a08_19644979.jpg

a27_19472503.jpg

af06_16799677.jpg

Artillerymen fire a 155mm Howitzer at a Taliban position
af25_16866877.jpg

af27_16867121.jpg

a20_18440627.jpg

a24_18378551.jpg

a30_18441997.jpg

A Canadian soldier door gunner from NATO-led coalition opens fire witha machine gun from a CH-146 Griffon helicopter as it flies overneighbourhood in Kandahar province, southern Afghanistan,
a11_23945199.jpg

The uniform of a U.S. Army soldier lies on the floor of the trauma wardsoaked with blood after being cut off of him after he was hurt in anexplosion on the battlefield in Kandahar province at the Kandahar Role3 Hospital
 
Powerful pictures, Crank...

Liked this one in particular though. Beautiful view
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Powerful pictures, Crank...

Liked this one in particular though. Beautiful view
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Originally Posted by CrunkJuicedUp

i still don't see pictures of the innocent afghan civilians wounded or killed........ why aint there pics of that? pretty one sided if u ask me.

shut up man..save that for another thread..
  
 
Originally Posted by CrunkJuicedUp

i still don't see pictures of the innocent afghan civilians wounded or killed........ why aint there pics of that? pretty one sided if u ask me.

shut up man..save that for another thread..
  
 
War is hell. The one with the woman leaning her head onto the car's window got me, and I saved that starry one too. Good pictures.
 
War is hell. The one with the woman leaning her head onto the car's window got me, and I saved that starry one too. Good pictures.
 
Much appreciation goes to the soldiers who continue to put their lives on the line. It's a shame that there is so much bloodshed and death. Whatever happened to Obama's exit strategy? Pull the soldiers out and focus on problems at home. Frustrating...
 
Much appreciation goes to the soldiers who continue to put their lives on the line. It's a shame that there is so much bloodshed and death. Whatever happened to Obama's exit strategy? Pull the soldiers out and focus on problems at home. Frustrating...
 
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