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Spc. Jobel Barbosa had spent the past hour with his family in a parking lot after a public ceremony marking his unit’s deployment to a war that’s coming to an end. It was time to go.
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1st Sgt. Brian Webb glances back one last time before boarding a plane as he and other soldiers assigned to E Co., 120th Combined Arms Battalion, 30th Heavy Brigade Combat Team leave from Green Ramp on Pope Air Force Base, N.C., Tuesday, April 21, 2009...
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