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U.S. Army 1st Lt. Brandon Whitis speaks with a local man.
U.S. Army 1st Lt. Brandon Whitis speaks with a local man about conditions in the Diyala River Valley region of Iraq on Aug. 16, 2007. Whitis and his fellow soldiers from Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division are patrolling in the region looking for insurgents and weapons caches.