Lance Cpl. Arturo Valtierra, a mortarman with Redemption II, Weapons Company, 2nd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, scans for IEDs during a foot patrol to a local Afghan National Police near Patrol Base Gorgak, Garmsir District, Helmand province, Afghanistan, Feb. 13. No Marine battalion currently in Afghanistan has had more success at finding IEDs than 2/1, which has discovered and disposed of 94 percent of those they've encountered. Valtierra is from Houston, Texas. IE-Doh! Taliban tactic fizzles in Garmsir, Afghanistan DVIDS368874

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