1st Lt. Pat Barone, a platoon leader with Company D, 1st Battalion, 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade, 82nd Airborne Division (Advise and Assist Brigade), meets with Lt. Col. Ayad, a company commander with 2nd Battalion, 15th Brigade, Iraqi Department of Border Enforcement, in Ayad’s office along the Iraqi-Syrian border Dec. 7, 2009. Barone is asking the Iraqi officer how he would like to incorporate Barone’s paratroopers into Iraqi border security operations. ( Army photo by Spc. Michael J. MacLeod) (released) Department of Border Enforcement by 1st Armored Division and Fort

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1st Lt. Pat Barone, a platoon leader with Company D, 1st Battalion, 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade, 82nd Airborne Division (Advise and Assist Brigade), meets with Lt. Col. Ayad, a company commander with 2nd Battalion, 15th Brigade, Iraqi Department of Border Enforcement, in Ayad’s office along the Iraqi-Syrian border Dec. 7, 2009. Barone is asking the Iraqi officer how he would like to incorporate Barone’s paratroopers into Iraqi border security operations. ( Army photo by Spc. Michael J. MacLeod) (released) Department of Border Enforcement by 1st Armored Division and Fort Bliss

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