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U.S. Lance Cpl. Connor N. Dyer, from Dallas, Ga., looks downrange as an Afghan National Army soldier fire a .50 caliber machinegun during a crew served weapons range here, May 24, 2012. During the range the soldiers fired M240B machineguns …
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Blue Star Museums is a program which offers active duty military and their families free museum admission at more than 1,500 museums nationwide from Memorial Day, May 28, through Labor Day, September 3, 2012. Blue Star Museums is a collaborative …
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Coast Guard provides security for NATO summit —€“ A tactical Coast Guard boatcrew, aboard a 25-foot Response Boat-Small, patrols Lake Michigan near the city of Chicago during the 2012 NATO Summit, May 21, 2012. Coast Guard boatcrews enforced security zones …
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June 6, 1944, 160,000 Allied troops landed along a 50-mile stretch of heavily-fortified French coastline to fight Nazi Germany on the beaches of Normandy, France. General Dwight D. Eisenhower called the operation a crusade in which “we will accept nothing …
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Sgt. Clifford Wooldridge was leading a counterattack against insurgents in Afghanistan when shooting turned to hand-to-hand combat. Lance Cpl. Lauren Kurkimilis takes us to the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center in Twentynine Palms, California, where he was recently awarded …
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