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Soldiers with "B" Company, 2nd Battalion, 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment (PIR), from Fort Bragg, North Carolina, armed with 5.56mm M4 Carbine rifles, search a house for Taliban weapons caches in the Baghran Valley during Operation Viper, in support of Operation ENDURING FREEDOM

Soldiers with "B" Company, 2nd Battalion, 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment (PIR), from Fort Bragg, North Carolina, armed with 5.56mm M4 Carbine rifles, search a house for Taliban weapons caches in the Baghran Valley during Operation Viper, in support of Operation ENDURING FREEDOM

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Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM

Country: Afghanistan (AFG)

Scene Camera Operator: SPC Preston E. Cheeks, USA

Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

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19/02/2003

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The U.S. National Archives

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