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Maj. Scott Vezeau with the 101st Airborne "Rakkasans" Regiment tries to coax his donkey across the finish line during a Halloween donkey race Friday on base in Sinjar, Iraq. Joe Raedle / Getty Images
Lt. Andrew Carrigan, from Boston, Cpl. Darvick Xiong from Wausaw, Wis., and Spc. Steven Payne, from Jolo, W.Va., with the 101st Airborne "Rakkasans" Regiment, participate in a donkey race Friday at their base in Sinjar. Joe Raedle / Getty Images
Soldiers with the 101st Airborne "Rakkasans" Regiment take time out on Halloween for a donkey race in Sinjar. Joe Raedle / Getty Images
Acting on information from an informant, soldiers from the 101st Airborne "Rakkassan" Regiment search a home Thursday in Tallafar, Iraq, detaining one person. Joe Raedle / Getty Images
Residents wait as soldiers from the 101st Airborne Rakkassan Regiment search a room during a raid on a home in Tallafar. Joe Raedle / Getty Images
Army Cpl. Terrence Kamauf, from Pittsburgh, with the 101st Airborne "Rakkassan" Regiment, walks though the streets of Tallafar during a Thursday raid to stabilize this region near the Syrian border. Joe Raedle / Getty Images
Maj. Timothy Sullivan, from Brooklyn, N.Y., with the 101st Airborne "Rakkassan" Regiment speaks with Sfaya oil pumping station manager Iwid Jumei on Thursday in the Ninewa Province of northern Iraq. As the Iraqis try to increase oil production at the Anzalla fields, they must cope with sabotage, looting and other problems that keep them from reaching their maximum capacity of 17,000 barrels a day. Joe Raedle / Getty Images
Maj. Timothy Sullivan and Sgt. 1st Class Scott Juszkiewicz, from Derry, N.H., with the 101st Airborne "Rakkassan" Regiment, walk past an oil well near the Sfaya pumping station Thursday in the Ninewa Province. The pumping station is responsible for pushing 4,500 barrels of oil into Syria in exchange for electricity. Joe Raedle / Getty Images
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