Army Lt. Gen. Stephen Townsend, commanding general of Combined Joint Task Force-Operation Inherent Resolve and XVIII Airborne Corps (center), receives an operations update from leaders of the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, near Bakhira, Iraq, April 12, 2017. The 2nd BCT, 82nd Abn. Div. enables their Iraqi security forces partners through the advise and assist mission, contributing planning, intelligence collection and analysis, force protection, and precision fires to achieve the military defeat of ISIS. CJTF-OIR is the global Coalition to defeat ISIS in Iraq and Syria.

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