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It appears that the field to the right of Shanahan in the top picture is full of marijuana plants--not the first time we've seen a whole lot of cannabis in a picture from Afghanistan.
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Staff Sgt. Dustin Shanahan of Susanville, California with U.S. Army's EOD demolition team carefully carries a powerful Taliban-planted bomb made from a mortar round and a rocket-propelled grenade before blowing it up to neutralize it October 8, 2010 in the village of Zoldag Mongah west of Kandahar. Shanahan is attached to the 1st Battalion, 2nd Brigade of the 101st Airborne Division, the storied "Black Hearts" that won fame on D-Day and in other battles and are now spread out in the Taliban-infused badlands west of Kandahar.
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Shanahan was called upon to defuse four different bombs aimed at American troops today.