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Subject Operation/Series: ROVING SANDS '96

Base: Fort Bliss

State: Texas (TX)

Country: United States Of America (USA)

Scene Camera Operator: PFC. Ishman Merritt

Release Status: Released to Public

Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

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15/06/1996
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