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Lt. Matt Piosa rests inside a bunker. The 173rd Airborne brigade, Battle Company established the bunker after a difficult battle with insurgents to control the strategic high grounds near the Korengal Outpost.
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Soldiers with the battle company take shelter from a mortar barrage in a bunker at the Korengal Outpost.
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Cpt. Dan Kearney, kneeling, arrives to check on Staff Sgt. Rice, after Rice was shot in an insurgent ambush.
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Sgt. Tanner Stichter tends to a wounded Specialist Carl Vandenberge.
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Soldiers take shelter behind a tree trunk as they await the arrival of a medevac helicopter. The helicopter will airlift the body of Staff Sgt. Larry Rougle, who was killed in the insurgent ambush.
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Specialist Carl Vandenberge, right, and Staff Sgt. Kevin Rice, left, are assisted as they walk to a medevac helicopter after being shot by insurgents in the ambush.
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U.S. troops carry the body of Staff Sgt. Larry Rougle, who was killed when the insurgents ambushed their squad in the Korengal Valley.
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A soldier sits alone in the dust of a medevac helicopter as it departs with the body of his comrade Staff Sgt. Rougle.
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