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At Karshi-Khanabad Air Base, Uzbekistan, the transfer case with the body of US Navy Seal CHIEF Hospital Corpsman (HMC) Matthew J. Bourgeois, is loaded onto a C-17A Globemaster III for a flight
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Luke Coffey Twitterren: "#ThrowbackThursdays Karshi-Khanabad Airbase, Uzbekistan in 2005 just before closure. (Probably not wisest picture I've ever had taken!) https://t.co/erCp3nIB08" / Twitter
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