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Staff Sgt. Greg Talley prepares to hook up electronic blasting caps to a control box that he will use to destroy a cache of weapons, including discarded Soviet munitions from the 1970s, Aug. 2 at an ordnance disposal site near Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan. Sergeant Talley is an explosive ordnance disposal technician with the 755th Air Expeditionary Group, and deployed from Dyess Air Force Base, Texas. (U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. John Jung)
