(FORT BENNING, GA) 49 teams from across the world kick off the 30th Annual Best Ranger Competition, Friday, April 12, 2013 at Camp Rogers, Fort Benning, Ga.    (Photo by Ashley Cross/U.S. Army Photo)
(FORT BENNING, GA) 49 teams from across the world kick off the 30th Annual Best Ranger Competition, Friday, April 12, 2013 at Camp Rogers, Fort Benning, Ga.    (Photo by Ashley Cross/U.S. Army Photo)
(FORT BENNING, GA) 49 teams from across the world kick off the 30th Annual Best Ranger Competition, Friday, April 12, 2013 at Camp Rogers, Fort Benning, Ga.    (Photo by Ashley Cross/U.S. Army Photo)
(FORT BENNING, GA) 49 teams from across the world kick off the 30th Annual Best Ranger Competition, Friday, April 12, 2013 at Camp Rogers, Fort Benning, Ga.    (Photo by Ashley Cross/U.S. Army Photo)
Soldiers from the Fort Benning-based Warrior Training Center teach students sling load operations a CH-47 Chinook helicopter during U.S. Army Pathfinder School at Fort Pickett, Va., August 19. The mission of a Pathfinder is to provide technical assistance and advise the ground unit commander on combat assault operations, sling load operations, air movement, airborne operations, and aerial re-supply by fixed and rotary wing aircraft. (Photo by Staff Sgt. Andrew H. Owen, Virginia Guard Public Affairs)
Soldiers from the Fort Benning-based Warrior Training Center teach students sling load operations a CH-47 Chinook helicopter during U.S. Army Pathfinder School at Fort Pickett, Va., August 19. The mission of a Pathfinder is to provide technical assistance and advise the ground unit commander on combat assault operations, sling load operations, air movement, airborne operations, and aerial re-supply by fixed and rotary wing aircraft. (Photo by Staff Sgt. Andrew H. Owen, Virginia Guard Public Affairs)
U.S. Soldiers assigned to the 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team (ABCT) secure the landing zone at the Joint Multi-National Training Center in Hohenfels, Germany, March 31, 2007. The 173rd ABCT is training for an upcoming deployment to Afghanistan. (U.S. Army photo by Gary L. Kieffer/Released)
Pfc. Kyle Kindred, a military police Soldier with 2nd Platoon, 529th MP Company, 95th MP Battalion, reads one of the books picked out by a group of children Oct. 4 at the Mannheim Library on Benjamin Franklin Village in Mannheim, Germany, during the weekly after school reading program sponsored by the platoon.
U.S. Army Pvt. John Stafinski, a native of Seville, Ohio, fires his M-249 squad automatic weapon during a three-hour gun battle with insurgent fighters in Kunar province, Afghanistan's Waterpur Valley, Nov. 3. Stafinski is an infantryman with Company C, 2nd Battalion, 12th Infantry Regiment, 4th Infantry Division, based out of Fort Carson, Colo.
U.S. Soldiers assigned to the 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team (ABCT) secure the landing zone at the Joint Multi-National Training Center in Hohenfels, Germany, March 31, 2007. The 173rd ABCT is training for an upcoming deployment to Afghanistan. (U.S. Army photo by Gary L. Kieffer/Released)
U.S. Soldiers assigned to the 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team (ABCT) secure the landing zone at the Joint Multi-National Training Center in Hohenfels, Germany, March 31, 2007. The 173rd ABCT is training for an upcoming deployment to Afghanistan. (U.S. Army photo by Gary L. Kieffer/Released)
U.S. Soldiers assigned to the 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team (ABCT) secure the landing zone at the Joint Multi-National Training Center in Hohenfels, Germany, March 31, 2007. The 173rd ABCT is training for an upcoming deployment to Afghanistan. (U.S. Army photo by Gary L. Kieffer/Released)
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