Task Force Rugged Soldiers assigned to 14th Brigade Engineer Battalion at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash. join a group of Redding Hotshot firefighters, August 17, 2018, in Mendocino National Forest, Calif., to cut line in the wake of an oncoming fire on Pine Mountain. The combined crew was tasked with “holding the line” over several hundred square feet of controlled burn area in an effort to deprive the Mendocino Complex Fire of the fuel it needs to spread. Army

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