Spc. Armando Ramirez, a soldier with 4th Battalion, 227th Attack Reconnaissance Battalion, 1st Cavalry, now under the 42nd Combat Aviation Brigade, checks an AH-64 Apache's M230 30 millimeter automatic cannon during a Forward Arming and Refueling Point exercise with A Company, 642nd Aviation Support Battalion, 42nd CAB, on Jan. 15, 2014, near Camp Buehring, Kuwait. The 42nd CAB, New York Army National Guard, is based in Kuwait and has assumed command of Army aviation assets in the region as part of Operation Enduring Freedom. ( Army National Guard photo by Spc. Harley Jelis/Released)

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