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Snapshots of what’s happening in the Defense Department.

Marine 1st Lt. Matthew Hilton, left, returned to his alma mater, George Mason University, to act as honorary ringmaster at the "Greatest Show on Earth" During Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus’ Military Appreciation Night, April 4. Defense Dept. photo by Samantha L. Quigley

Marine 1st Lt. Matthew Hilton, left, returned to his alma mater, George Mason University, to act as honorary ringmaster at the "Greatest Show on Earth" During Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus’ Military Appreciation Night, April 4. Defense Dept. photo by Samantha L. Quigley

Marine 1st Lt. Matthew Hilton, left, returned to his alma mater, George Mason University, to act as honorary ringmaster at the "Greatest Show on Earth" During Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus’ Military Appreciation Night, April 4. Defense Dept. photo by Samantha L. Quigley

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