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A soldier walks through a poppy field.

(Drew Brown/Stars and Stripes)

Mir Hotak, Afghanistan, April 15, 2009: Fields of opium poppy stretch in every direction as soldiers with Company A, 2nd Battalion, 2nd Infantry Regiment, conduct a patrol near the village of Mir Hotak, Kandahar province, Afghanistan.

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