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It feels like a lifetime ago, yet I can still picture it as if it happened yesterday. That night, we were in Iraq, patrolling near the Syrian border. Our job was to keep an eye on the smugglers moving weapons and people across the border. We were working with a newly-formed Iraqi border patrol, training them as they joined us on these missions. The border itself was marked by a 10-foot dirt berm—a barrier meant to slow down illegal crossings. We had six vehicles in our convo