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PEL06 - 20011125 - -, AT SEA : US Marine Cpl Jason Hooker from Crestview, Florida (R) wears a ski mask as he carries his M-203 rifle (An M-16 fitted with a grenade launcher) as he and other Marines of Charlie Co 1/1 of the 15th MEU (Marine Expeditionary Unit) make their way to board a CH-53 helicopter named "Creeping Death" as a "raid force" begins its assault on a secret airstrip in southern Afghanistan at sundown on Sunday, 25 November 2001, from somewhere in the northern Arabian Sea. EPA PHOTO REUTERS POOL/JIM HOLLANDER/ac/mr