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Thursday, December 17, 2009

OFFICIAL UNITED STATES ARMY PHOTOGRAPHS

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Chief Warrant Officer Three Aaron Fouquette, from Jacksonville, Florida, an AH-64D "Apache" attack helicopter instructor pilot in Fourth Battalion, Two Hundred and Twenty-Seventh Aviation Regiment, First Air Cavalry Brigade, First Cavalry Division, conducts systems checks on an "Apache" before starting the mission at Camp Taji, Iraq on Thursday 10 December 2009.



Specialist Jonathan Moore, from Columbus, Georgia, an AH-64D "Apache" attack helicopter crew chief in Fourth Battalion, Two Hundred and Twenty-Seventh Aviation Regiment, First Air Cavalry Brigade, First Cavalry Division, stands by to launch Chief Warrant Officer Three Aaron Fouquette (backseat), from Jacksonville, Florida, and Chief Warrant Officer Two John Munson (front seat), from Lyons, New York, at Camp Taji, Iraq on Thursday 10 December 2009.



A Canadian special operations soldier descends in front of Mount Rainier onto Fort Lewis, Washington, after jumping with paratroopers in the United States Army from the First Special Forces Group on Wednesday 02 December 2009 during Menton Week.

The week-long celebration leads up to the Sixty-Fifth annual Menton Day, which commemorates the inactivation of the combined United States and Canadian First Special Service Force on 05 December 1944, the unit featured in the 1968 Hollywood motion picture production, "THE DEVIL'S BRIGADE".



First Lieutenant Pat Barone, a platoon leader, and Sergeant Daryl Appling, both with Company D, First Battalion, Five Hundred and Fourth Parachute Infantry Regiment, explain to Iraqi Department of Border Enforcement soldiers how to conduct tactical patrols at night along the Iraqi-Syrian border on Wednesday 09 December 2009.

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