Soldiers of Army National Guard 162 Engineer Company attached with 2nd Combat Engineer Battalion of the U.S. Marine Corps pray in front of their Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) armored vehicle, which was recently hit by road side bomb, before going for a route clearance mission from Camp Leatherneck in Helmand province, southern Afghanistan
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