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BALAD AIR BASE, Iraq -- Staff Sgts. Andrew Filcher and Christopher Ferrell, 332nd Expeditionary Civil Engineer Squadron explosive ordnance disposal team members, place three 40-pound unserviceable guided missiles in a crater before disposal here, May 9. Controlled detonations are a means of disposing of unexploded ordnances to ensure they don?t fall into possession of enemy forces. Sergeant Filcher is deployed from Hill Air Force Base, Utah; Sergeant Ferrell is deployed from Charleston Air Force Base, S.C. (U.S. Air Force photo/ Senior Airman Julianne Showalter)

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