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Students from the Strike Brigade, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) perform their helicopter rappel from a UH-60 Black Hawk, the capstone event of their training, during the last day of Air Assault School at Q West Air Base on Saturday, September 27. Rob Curtis / Military Times Staff

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Sgt. Chris Wilson, from Walnut Creek, Calif., with 1st Battalion, 327th Infantry Regiment, yells at a driver who tried to steer through a traffic control point Thursday at the Qayyarah bridge. Soldiers from his company and members of the newly formed Iraqi Civil Defense Corps man the checkpoint in northern Iraq. Rob Curtis / Military Times staff

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Maj. Gen. David H. Petraeus, commander of the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), visits the site where soldiers of the 6th Battalion, 101st Aviation Regiment conducted a search of a suspected terrorist camp in southwest Iraq during Operation Iraqi Freedom on Sept. 17. Pvt. Daniel D. Meacham / U.S. Army

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Maj. Gen. David H. Patreaus, commander of the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), works at the divisions headquarters in Mosul. Rob Curtis / Military Times staff 

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Members of A Company, 2nd Battalion, 502nd Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) take cover by a wall as they wait for the signal to go into a house that is suspected of harboring members of the former Iraqi regime in Mosul, Iraq, during Operation Iraqi Freedom, Sept. 23, 2003. U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Curtis Hargrave

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U.S. soldiers from B Company, 1st Battalion, 327th Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) pulls security by a wall near a house where other soldiers are conducting a cordon and search for members of the former Iraqi regime. U.S. Army photo by Spc. Kieran Moore

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Members of B Company, 1st Battalion, 327th Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) look through their night vision goggles as they pull security on the outside of a house suspected to be harboring members of the former Iraqi regime during a cordon and search. U.S. Army photo by Spc. Kieran Moore

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Soldiers from B Company, 1st Battalion, 327th Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) begin searching a house suspected of harboring members of the former Iraqi regime. U.S. Army photo by Spc. Kieran Moore

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Members of the 502nd Infantry Regiment discover large sums of Iraqi dinars and a pistol during the search of a home belonging to a suspected member of the former Iraqi regime. U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Curtis Hargrave

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Soldiers of the 501st Signal Battalion 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) make a supply run to a communication transit site north of Mosul, Iraq, during Operation Iraqi Freedom, Sept. 25, 2003. After arriving at the site, the soldiers unload supplies from a UH-60 Blackhawk helicopter. U.S. Army photo by Pvt. Daniel D Meacham

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Soldiers of the 501st Signal Battalion, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) unload supplies from a UH-60 Blackhawk helicopter for a communication transit site north of Mosul, Iraq. U.S. Army photo by Pvt. Daniel D Meacham

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U.S. Army Sgt. Follmer of the 501st Signal Battalion, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) rigs a sling load to a water blivet to be lifted by a UH-60 Blackhawk Helicopter in Mosul, Iraq. U.S. Army photo by Pvt. Daniel D Meacham

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Soldiers of the 501st Signal Battalion, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) unload supplies from a UH-60 Blackhawk helicopter during a deliver to a communication transit site north of Mosul, Iraq. U.S. Army photo by Pvt. Daniel D Meacham