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We've published pictures of makeshift gyms before, from Afghanistan and Cuba. Click here or the "makeshift gym" tag below to see all manner of improvised weights and weight machines.
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LCPL. James Edward Orr, 20, from the First Battalion Eighth Marines Alpha Company lifts weights made from barbed wire at a makeshift gym at an outpost in Kunjak in southern Afghanistan's Helmand province, Feb. 17.