Army paratroopers from B Company, 3rd Battalion, 509th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 25th Infantry Division, board a CH-53 'Chinook' prior to an Air Assault mission, at Forward Operations Base Kalsu, Iraq, Aug. 21. The unit is conducting a raid on a suspected weapons cache in Sawarah, along the Tigris River, south of Baghdad as part of Operation Marne Husky. Paratroopers, Air Power Destroy Rigged Building 54374

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