SPECTACULAR COMBAT PHOTOGRAPH

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For a larger view, please click on the photograph.

In this rather unusual official United States Army photograph, taken by Staff Sergeant Mark Burrell, a 120mm mortar round flies out of the tube as Staff Sergeant Ramey J. Brown (left), from Marshville, North Carolina, Specialist Tyler L. Dillon (center), from Williamstown, West Virginia, and Private Gabriel C. Fields (right), from Fort Worth, Texas, assigned to Troop C, of the First Squadron, Thirty-Second Cavalry Regiment, in Task Force Bandit, take cover while at Observation Post Mustang in Kunar Province located in the eastern part of Afghanistan on Wednesday 26 January 2011.

"It gets pretty intense sometimes when firing, especially if a firefight is going on," said Specialist Dillon.

That photograph really should get some sort of prize, don't you think?

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