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Peter van Agtmael talks about what drives him to the most dangerous assignments on earth: the hope that pictures can play a role in improving the future.

By Joerg Colberg Posted December 10, 2007

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SGT Brown at Patrol Base California in the Pech Valley of Eastern Afghanistan. Brown was in the final days of a fifteen month tour with the 10th Mountain Division. His unit established the rudimentary patrol base along a dangerous conduit point for the insurgency. Its presence was hotly contested, and the unit was engaged in 83 firefights over the course of the deployment, suffering numerous casualties.

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