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Jan 28, 2005

Sgt. Michael Mead, CH-53E Super Stallion crew chief, Marine Heavy Helicopter Squadron 361, Marine Aircraft Group 16, guides an extendable boom forklift driver while Cpl. Colby Yard, aerial gunner, HMM-361, watches the for clearance as they load a box full of election materials into their helicopter at Al Taqqadum, Iraq Jan. 28. Mead, a 22-year-old from Johnson City, N.Y., and Yard, a 22-year-old from LaHarpe, Ill., were part of a 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing effort to transport election workers and materials throughout the Al Anbar province prior to the Jan. 30 elections, the first democratic elections in the nation's history.

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