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    'Iron Knights' patrol the Arghandab [Image 10 of 22]

    'Iron Knights' patrol the Arghandab

    ARGHANDAB DISTRICT, AFGHANISTAN

    01.31.2011

    Photo by Spc. Breanne Pye 

    1st Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division

    Pfc. Thomas Boggs, armored crewman, assigned to 2nd Squad, 3rd Platoon, Company C., 1st Battalion, 66th Armored Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, leaps across a small irrigation canal Jan. 31 in an orchard in Arghandab District. Boggs, a native of Escanaba, Mich., was conducting a foot patrol with his squad to search orchards throughout the district and interact with the local population. During their foot patrols, 2nd squad must maneuver their way through the Arghandab‘s many obstacles, including: farmer-built mud walls, irrigation canals, densely populated orchards, foot-wide pathways through long stretches of boggy flats and even a 30-foot-tall wall they must climb during their patrol.

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    IMAGE INFO

    Date Taken: 01.31.2011
    Date Posted: 02.03.2011 08:59
    Photo ID: 363215
    VIRIN: 110131-A-9563P-044
    Resolution: 3401x2438
    Size: 5.92 MB
    Location: ARGHANDAB DISTRICT, AF

    Web Views: 91
    Downloads: 24

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