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Sapper candidate and Army Captain Stephanie Godman (left) and the rest of the platoon make their way to a waiting truck to be transported to a site for the next mission during another day of Sapper School training at U.S. Army Maneuver Support Center (MANSCEN) and Fort Leonard Wood in Fort Leonard Wood, Mo., Monday, June 25, 2012. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)
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Sapper candidate and Army Captain Stephanie Godman (right) is joined by her "Battle Buddy" Sapper candidate and National Guard Staff Sargent Anthony Hughes as they post up deep in the woods to help form a perimeter during another day of Sapper School training at U.S. Army Maneuver Support Center (MANSCEN) and Fort Leonard Wood in Fort Leonard Wood, Mo., Tuesday, June 26, 2012. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)
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Sapper candidate and Army Captain Stephanie Godman gets instructions as she prepares to take a position along the perimeter during another day of Sapper School training at U.S. Army Maneuver Support Center (MANSCEN) and Fort Leonard Wood in Fort Leonard Wood, Mo., Tuesday, June 26, 2012. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)
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Sapper candidate and Army Captain Stephanie Godman sits in the sweltering heat with some members of the platoon aboard a truck to be transported to a site for the next mission during another day of Sapper School training at U.S. Army Maneuver Support Center (MANSCEN) and Fort Leonard Wood in Fort Leonard Wood, Mo., Monday, June 25, 2012. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)
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Sapper candidate and Army Captain Aston Armstrong joins the platoon as they make their way to have breakfast after two grueling weeks in the field, a day after Sapper School training ended for the candidates at U.S. Army Maneuver Support Center (MANSCEN) and Fort Leonard Wood in Fort Leonard Wood, Mo., Thursday, June 28, 2012. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)
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Sapper candidate and Army Captain Aston Armstrong wears her long hair in a bun as she joins the men in her platoon for the march back to the co-ed barracks following their breakfast, after two grueling weeks in the field, a day after Sapper School training ended for the candidates at U.S. Army Maneuver Support Center (MANSCEN) and Fort Leonard Wood in Fort Leonard Wood, Mo., Thursday, June 28, 2012. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)
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Sapper candidate and Army Captain Aston Armstrong joins the men in her platoon for the march back to the co-ed barracks following their breakfast, after two grueling weeks in the field, a day after Sapper School training ended for the candidates at U.S. Army Maneuver Support Center (MANSCEN) and Fort Leonard Wood in Fort Leonard Wood, Mo., Thursday, June 28, 2012. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)
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Sapper candidate and Army Captain Aston Armstrong joins the platoon as they make their way to have breakfast after two grueling weeks in the field, a day after Sapper School training ended for the candidates at U.S. Army Maneuver Support Center (MANSCEN) and Fort Leonard Wood in Fort Leonard Wood, Mo., Thursday, June 28, 2012. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)
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Sapper candidate and Army Captain Stephanie Godman sits in the sweltering heat with some members of the platoon aboard a truck to be transported to a site for the next mission during another day of Sapper School training at U.S. Army Maneuver Support Center (MANSCEN) and Fort Leonard Wood in Fort Leonard Wood, Mo., Monday, June 25, 2012. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)
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Sapper candidate and Army Captain Stephanie Godman (left) and the rest of the platoon board a waiting truck to be transported to a site for the next mission during another day of Sapper School training at U.S. Army Maneuver Support Center (MANSCEN) and Fort Leonard Wood in Fort Leonard Wood, Mo., Monday, June 25, 2012. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)
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A crane toppled in the Weinberger family's yard in Bethesda when trying to remove a fallen tree from the roof of their home. Photo courtesy Alan Weinberger.
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Army Capt. Stephanie Godman (left) and the rest of the platoon make their way to a truck to be transported to a site for the next mission during another day of sapper school training. Capt. Godman, 26, has always considered herself something of a tomboy since playing with her brother and other boys in Pleasant Hill, Calif. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)
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The women's latrine is marked by a makeshift sign on the door. The men and women sapper trainees occupy separate areas of a shared barracks. In the field, "you have to wander off deep into the woods so nobody can see you," Capt. Armstrong said.
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John Lannan could be just the answer when the time comes time for the Washington Nationals to shut down Stephen Strasburg. (AP photo)
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Spiritual leader Mata Amritanandamayi (left) hugs and blesses Sue Jones of Virginia Beach, Va., as Mildred Donlon (second from right) waits to be received at the Hilton Alexandria Mark Center in Alexandria on Friday. The spiritual leader from India is on a 10-city tour through North America. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
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Francesca Rossi, curator in charge of the Sforzesco Castle drawings collection, examines a work by Umberto Boccioni in the same room where Simone Peterzano sketches are preserved. She says art historians who claim to have found early drawings of Caravaggio, a student of Peterzano, are naive and "never came here in the drawings department to scrutinize the works." Yet Maurizio Bernardelli Curuz says he was able to visit the collection after hours and "saw the originals." (Associated Press)
