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Cpl. Matthew Ortiz directs a TRAM vehicle that is filling a HESCO barrier with dirt.
U.S. Marine Corps Cpl. Matthew Ortiz, a team leader with 1st Combat Engineer Battalion, 1st Marine Division (Forward), directs a TRAM vehicle that is filling a HESCO barrier with dirt at a small combat outpost in Musa Qala, Afghanistan, on Nov. 13, 2010. Marine engineers constructed the new patrol base for Afghan Security Forces.