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Staff Sgt Gordon W. Plotzki, a section leader with Company C, 2nd AAV Battalion, RCT-7, stands in the turret of his AAV manning it's crew serve weapons and providing security for Marines in their position in Haqlaniyah along the Euphrates.  The island in the background is where the two 500 lbs bombs where dropped to silence enemy machine gun positions that opened up on Marines on Feb,23.

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Service Branch
US Marine Corps
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AAV
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