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US Army female soldier with the 2-17 Field Artillery Regiment, Private Cherish Cooper from Steamville, Texas, covers colleagues setting up a checkpoint in Ramadi, west of Baghdad, 25 October 2004. Nineteen-year-old Cooper, who goes out on deadly missions in the badlands of the Sunni Muslim triangle, has hunted down snipers in Ramadi and tangled with insurgents on the perimeter of Fallujah.
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