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BAGRAM AIRFIELD, Afghanistan -- Tech. Sgt. John Lowe III, from the 455th Expeditionary Communications Squadron, uses a pry-bar to extract rocks from a network-cable trench, Aug. 20, 2009. The cable trench allows for communication equipment to be routed to nearby buildings. Machines used to dig the network-cable trench cannot cut through rocks this large. The "Cable Dawg" members must extract the rocks by hand. Sergeant Lowe is deployed from Ramstein Air Base, Germany and hails from Philadelphia. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Felicia Juenke)

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BAGRAM AIRFIELD, Afghanistan - Tech. Sgt. John Lowe III, from the 455th Expeditionary Communications Squadron, must remove a rock by hand here, Aug. 20. The machines used to dig the channel cannot cut through large rocks and "Cable Dawg" members must extract the rocks by hand. Sergeant Lowe is deployed from Ramstein Air Base, Germany and hails from Philadelphia. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Felicia Juenke)

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BAGRAM AIRFIELD, Afghanistan - Tech. Sgt. John Lowe III, from the 455th Expeditionary Communications Squadron, clears dirt away from a rock that he must remove here, Aug. 20. The machines used to dig the channels necessary for the job cannot cut through rocks this large, which then requires members to extract the rocks by hand. Sergeant Lowe is deployed from Ramstein Air Base, Germany and hails from Philadelphia. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Felicia Juenke)

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BAGRAM AIRFIELD, Afghanistan - Senior Airman Roberto Reyes, from the 455th Expeditionary Communications Squadron, uses heavy machinery to cut a channel in order to lay cables here, Aug. 21. The 455th ECS is tasked with laying all the necessary cables to assure all work places have internet and phone lines. Airman Reyes, a native of Killeen, Texas, is deployed from Barksdale Air Force Base, La. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Felicia Juenke)

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BAGRAM AIRFIELD, Afghanistan - Senior Airman Wayne Peeples Jr. (left) assists Tech. Sgt. John Lowe III (right), both from the 455th Expeditionary Communications Squadron, in digging out rocks obstructing them from completing their mission here, Aug. 20. The machines used to dig the channels for cable laying cannot cut through large rocks. When "Cable Dawg" members come across these large rocks they must extract the rocks by hand. Sergeant Lowe is deployed from Ramstein Air Base, Germany and hails from Philadelphia. Airman Peeples, a native of Montgomery, Ala., is deployed from the Pennsylvania Air National Guard. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Felicia Juenke)

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Published Aug. 23, 2009