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U.S. Marines remove one of several cases of ordnance found in a weapons cache.
U.S. Marines remove one of several cases of ordnance found in a weapons cache buried outside of Kharma, Iraq, on March 3, 2005. The Marines are from the 2nd Combat Engineer Battalion, attached to the 3rd Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment, and are engaged in security and stabilization operations in the Al Anbar Province, Iraq.