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In this July 29, 2010, file photo, Spc. Dallas Purdy from Hockley, Texas, hangs a message of support from friends Ashley and Katie Daniels while serving with the 1-320th Alpha Battery, 2nd Brigade of the 101st Airborne Division at COP Nolen, in the volatile Arghandab Valley, Kandahar, Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd, File)
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U.S. soldiers and a local Afghan man carry an Afghan boy who stepped on an IED which severed his right foot and most of a hand to a U.S. Air Force Pave Hawk helicopter operated by the 58th Rescue Squadron, in Kandahar province, southern Afghanistan, Wednesday, July 28, 2010. Air Force Pararescue teams and helicopter aircrews are part of the Air Force's 451st Air Expeditionary Wing based at Kandahar Air Field, which provides a variety of air assets in southern Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)
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A 50 calibre U.S. Air Force door gunner waits as a patient is loaded onto his helicopter during a rescue mission for a wounded Afghan soldier in the Arghandab Valley, Kandahar province, southern Afghanistan, Thursday, July 29, 2010. Rescue teams one part of the U.S. Air Force's 451st Air Expeditionary Wing in southern Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)
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A U.S. medical helicopter arrives to evacuate a soldier from the 1-320th Alpha Battery, 2nd Brigade of the 101st Airborne Division, who was seriously wounded when he stepped on an improvised mine near Combat Outpost Nolen, in the volatile Arghandab Valley, Kandahar, Afghanistan, Friday, July 30, 2010. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
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During a helicopter rescue mission en route to a military hospital, Staff Sgt. Brandon Smith, a Pararescueman, or "PJ," of the 58th Rescue Squadron, treats an Afghan National Army soldier with a gunshot wound to the back, in Kandahar province, southern Afghanistan, Thursday, July 29, 2010. The PJs and helicopter aircrews are part of the U.S. Air Force's 451st Air Expeditionary Wing based at Kandahar Air Field, which provides a variety of air assets in southern Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)
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Following a helicopter rescue mission, military hospital staff wheel rush an Afghan National Army soldier with a gunshot wound to the back into a hospital, in Kandahar province, southern Afghanistan, Thursday July 29, 2010. U.S Air Force Pararescuers and helicopter aircrews are part of the U.S. Air Force's 451st Air Expeditionary Wing, which provides a variety of air assets in southern Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)
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In this July 23, 2010, file photo, United States Marines from Bravo Company of the 1st Battalion of the 2nd Marines fire machine guns for suppression during a gunbattle as part of an operation to clear the area of insurgents near Musa Qaleh, in northern Helmand Province, southern Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer, File)
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In this July 28, 2010, file photo, U.S. Army Lt. Christopher Babcock looks at the body of a suspected Taliban fighter killed by U.S. soldiers from 1-320th Alpha Battery, 2nd Brigade of the 101st Airborne Division, while local people protest the man was a farmer from Samir Kalacha village in the volatile Arghandab Valley, Kandahar, Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd, File)
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Richard Holbrooke, Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington Wednesday, July 28, 2010, before the House State and Foreign Operations subcommittee hearing on the oversight of U.S. civilian assistance for Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
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An Afghan National Police officer helps his fellow officer on to a U.S. Air Force rescue helicopter after he was shot during combat with the Taliban, in the Arghandab Valley, Kandahar province, southern Afghanistan, Thursday July 29, 2010. Rescue teams are one part of the U.S. Air Force's 451st Air Expeditionary Wing in southern Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)
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Associated Press A woman visits a grave in Section 60, where many soldiers from the Iraq and Afghanistan wars are buried, at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va. The number of graves that might be affected by mix-ups at Arlington National Cemetery grew from hundreds to as many as 6,600 on Thursday.
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** FILE ** This photo, displayed on a leaflet that was distributed by the U.S. military to civilians in Logar province, east of Kabul, Afghanistan, on July 25, 2010, shows a missing U.S. Navy sailor, whom the Navy identified as Petty Officer 3rd Class Jarod Newlove, a 25-year-old from the Seattle area. (AP Photo)
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An Afghan soldier launches a rocket-propelled grenade as U.S. soldiers of the 1-320th Alpha Battery, 2nd Brigade, of the 101st Airborne Division duck during a clash with insurgents at in the volatile Arghandab Valley in Kandahar, Afghanistan, on Tuesday, July 27, 2010. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
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Ryan Crocker, dean and executive professor at the George Bush School of Government and Public Service, testifies Tuesday on Capitol Hill before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
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"There is a real potential threat there to put American lives at risk," says Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, about the leak of a database of field reports from Afghanistan. (Associated Press)
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A US soldier from 1-320th Alpha Battery, 2nd Brigade of the 101st Airborne Division, returns fire towards insurgents as an Afghan soldier takes position during clashes at COP Nolen, in the volatile Arghandab Valley, Kandahar, Afghanistan, Tuesday, July 27, 2010. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
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US soldiers from 1-320th Alpha Battery, 2nd Brigade of the 101st Airborne Division, run to firing positions after coming under attack by Taliban insurgents at COP Nolen, in the volatile Arghandab Valley, Kandahar, Afghanistan, Tuesday, July 27, 2010. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
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US soldiers from 1-320th Alpha Battery, 2nd Brigade of the 101st Airborne Division, fire towards insurgents after coming under attack by Taliban at COP Nolen, in the volatile Arghandab Valley, Kandahar, Afghanistan, Tuesday, July 27, 2010. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
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US Army 2LT John Keller, of Downingtown, PA, from 1-320th Alpha Battery, 2nd Brigade of the 101st Airborne Division, directs mortar fire towards insurgent positions during clashes at COP Nolen, in the volatile Arghandab Valley, Kandahar, Afghanistan, Tuesday, July 27, 2010. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
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Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington Tuesday, July 27, 2010, during the committee's hearing on Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
