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Members of a U.S. Air Force explosive ordnance disposal team unpack C-4 explosives, Oct. 16, 2006. The explosives will be used to detonate a cache of unexploded ordnance recovered from a blast area on
Forward Operating Base Falcon, Iraq, following a recent mortar attack. The airmen are assigned to
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