We’re Still at War: Photo of the Day for June 25, 2010

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Sgt. Tyler Clausing, a truck driver with Company E, 1st Battalion, 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 1st Advise and Assist Brigade, 82nd Airborne Division, hooks up a trailer to a Palletized Load System truck after dark, on June 11, 2010, at Camp Khalid, Iraq. Photo via the US Army photo by Spc. Michael J. MacLeod.