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U.S. Army 1st Sgt. Chris Lalonde, center, holds his military working dog, Sgt. Maj. Fosco on the ramp of a CH-47 Chinook helicopter before their historic tandem airborne jump from an altitude of 12,500 feet on Fort Leonard Wood, Mo. Sept. 18, 2009. Lalonde is assigned to Company D, 701st Military Police Battalion. U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Vince Vander Maarel
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U.S. Army 1st Sgt. Chris Lalonde, right, with his military working dog, Sgt. Maj. Fosco, sit aboard a CH-47 Chinook helicopter just prior to taking off for the historical military’s first tandem airborne jump on Gammon Parade Field, on Fort Leonard Wood, Mo., Sept. 18, 2009. Lalonde is assigned to Company D, 701st Military Police Battalion. U.S. Army photo by Kevin Carlile
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Cezar, a military working dog assigned to the 28th Military Police Detachment at Fort Wainwright, Alaska, rides up to a medical evacuation helicopter on the aircraft’s hoist. (U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Matthew T MacRoberts)
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Army Sgt. 1st Class Matthew D. Blaskowski Died September 23, 2007 Serving During Operation Enduring Freedom 27, of Levering, Mich.; assigned to the 2nd Battalion (Airborne), 503rd Infantry Regiment, 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team, Vicenza, Italy; died Sept. 23 in Asadabad, Afghanistan, of wounds sustained when insurgents attacked his unit using small-arms fire during combat operations.
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Army Sgt. George Edward Buggs Died March 23, 2003 Serving During Operation Iraqi Freedom 31, of Barnwell, S.C.; assigned to 3rd Forward Support Battalion, 3rd Infantry Division, Fort Stewart, Ga.; killed after his convoy was ambushed in Iraq.
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Aug 6, 2011 a U.S. Boeing CH-47 Chinook, call sign Extortion 17, was shot down west of Kabul, Afghanistan, killing 38 people on board. 25 American Special Ops, 5 U.S. Army National Guard, Army Reserve Crewman, 7 Afghan commandos, 1 Afghan Interpreter & 1 U.S. military dog "Bart."
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Sgt. Samuel C. Hairston who died this week in Afghanistan, 35, of Houston, Texas. Died August 12, 2014, serving during Operation Enduring Freedom. Assigned to 1st Battalion, 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Died of wounds sustained from enemy small-arms fire during combat operations in Ghazni, Ghazni Province, Afghanistan.
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Army Sgt. Daniel J. Brown Died March 24, 2012 Serving During Operation Enduring Freedom 27, of Jerome, Idaho, assigned to 2nd Battalion, 8th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, Fort Carson, Colo.; died March 24 in Kandahar province, Afghanistan, of wounds caused by an improvised explosive device.
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U.S. Air Force Airman 1st Class Jason Fischman, a pararescueman assigned to the 83rd Expeditionary Rescue Squadron, hoists with a U.S. Army tactical explosive detection dog into a HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopter at Bagram Air Field, Afghanistan, June 21, 2013, during a joint rescue training scenario. The training was a first for both branches and prepared them for future rescue missions. (DoD photo by photo by Staff Sgt. Stephenie Wade, U.S. Air Force/Released)
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U.S. Army Cpl. Brian Lewis, a native of Duluth, Minn., and team leader assigned to 501st Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 25th Infantry Division greets an Afghan boy while conducting a security patrol in Shaway Valley, June 2. Blackfoot Company, stationed at Combat Outpost Chergataw, routinely patrols the valley in efforts to bring stability to the region. Photo by Staff Sgt. Jason Epperson
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U.S. Army Signal Corps photographer Tech. Sgt. Harry A. Downard of San Diego, Calif., holds up leather thong which was used to tie the legs and coat of this killed paratrooper of the 101st Airborne Division, near Bastogne, Belgium, Jan. 12, 1945. Signal Corps Photo #ETO-HQ-45-8244 (Pfc. J.W. Lapine). Photograph archived by the United States Army Center of Military History.
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U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Sarah Merklinger restrains Bojar, a military working dog, on their way to board an HH-60 Pavehawk helicopter on Kadena Air Base, Japan, July 14, 2008. Kadenas working dogs participated in familiarization training to get used to the loud noise from helicopters and disturbances associated with flying during deployments.
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Army Sgt. Cliff Aughe, a flight medic with C Company, 1st Battalion, 171st Aviation Regiment, New Mexico Army National Guard, watches over a soldier from the Afghan National Army during an evacuation mission in Afghanistan. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Daniel Schroeder)
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On this date: Oct. 1, 2009 Sgt. Roberto D. Sanchez, 24, was a team leader assigned to 1st Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment at Hunter Army Airfield, Ga., when he was killed during combat operations in Kandahar Province, Afghanistan. He was on his fifth deployment with three previous deployments to Iraq and one to Afghanistan.
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BE4 YOU JUDGE THEM, TRY TO UNDERSTAND WHAT THEY ARE WORKING WITH. -U.S. Army Capt. Frank Rodriguez, Commander of A Troop, 5th Squadron, 73rd Cavalry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, looks up a stairwell while Iraqi and U.S. Soldiers search a residence (U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. James Selesnick/Released)
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Dust lights up the rotors of a CH-47 Chinook helicopter as paratroopers with 3rd Squadron, 73rd Cavalry Regiment load for an air assault mission near Combat Outpost Ab Band, May 23, 2012, Ghazni province, Afghanistan.
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~ In Honor Of Army Pfc. Charles P. McClure ~ Pfc. Charles P. McClure, 21, of Stratford, Okla. died May 2, in Camp Buehring, Kuwait, of injuries sustained in a vehicle accident. He was assigned to 4th Battalion, 42nd Field Artillery Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, Fort Carson, Colo. Source: DoD
