Army Spc. Austin Roberts, a combat engineer assigned to Task Force Raider, pulls the ignitor for a fifteen-pound shape charger during a pre-deployment battle drill at Fort Hood, Texas, August 18. The shaped charger is the initial outline of an eventual twelve to twenty-foot diameter crater, which is used to stop tanks and enemy advancement. (

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