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Mar 16, 2011

Sgt. Jesse Walden, chief scout with C Company, 3rd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, prepares to fire a light anti-armor rocket at an insurgent fighting position in the Bahram Chah Valley during Operation Rawhide II in Helmand province, Afghanistan, March 16. During the four-day raid on the key insurgent trafficking hub on the Pakistan border, insurgents fought mainly from hillside fighting positions. The fighters Walden engaged were using a cave a few hundred yards from a Marine position.

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