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U.S. Navy Seabee Nathan Luetjen operates a bulldozer to demolish an unsafe building.
U.S. Navy Seabee Nathan Luetjen operates a bulldozer to demolish an unsafe building in Muzaffarabad, Pakistan, on Feb. 24, 2006. The Department of Defense is supporting the State Department by providing disaster relief supplies and services following the massive earthquake that struck Pakistan and parts of India and Afghanistan. Luetjen, a Navy equipment operator assigned to Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 4, Detachment Pakistan, is razing the building to prevent injuries to the Pakistani people.