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TOPSHOT - A British Chinook helicopter arrives at the Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) base at Lashkar Gah in Helmand, 1 May 2006, on the day that US forces will officially hand over the Helmand base to British control. Britain's deployment of 3,300 troops -- tripling the 1,100 already stationed there as part of a multi-national operation working on counter-narcotics and reconstruction -- will be part of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force. AFP PHOTO / JOHN D MCHUGH (Photo by JOHN D MCHUGH / AFP) (Photo by JOHN D MCHUGH/AFP via Getty Images)