We’re Still at War: Photo of the Day for August 17, 2009

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U.S. Army Pfc. Ali Hargis, assigned to 55th Signal Company, Joint Combat Camera-Iraq, interviews a soldier from the Iraqi Army’s 37th Brigade, 9th Iraqi Army Division, about his two-and-a-half week training with U.S. Soldiers on how to spot and report unknown explosive ordinances and improvised explosive devices at Camp Taji, Iraq, Aug. 3. (Photo courtesy army.mil.)