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VISBY, Sweden - Smearing themselves with face paint, the camouflage-clad men and women in the forest look like the professional soldiers now populating Europe's armed forces, some of them seasoned by deployments in conflict-torn countries far from Sweden. But they're home-guard volunteers - part-time soldiers training to defend the Baltic Sea island of Gotland.

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