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Snapshots of what’s happening in the Defense Department.

Retired Vice Adm. Samuel Gravely, the Navy's first black flag officer, strolls past an exhibit of the first African-American West Point graduate, the Buffalo Soldiers and African Americans who fought in the Revolutionary War and Civil War. Gravely's escort was Navy Lt. Cmdr. Desiree Linson who works for the assistant secretary of the Navy for manpower and reserve affairs. Rudi Williams

Retired Vice Adm. Samuel Gravely, the Navy's first black flag officer, strolls past an exhibit of the first African-American West Point graduate, the Buffalo Soldiers and African Americans who fought in the Revolutionary War and Civil War. Gravely's escort was Navy Lt. Cmdr. Desiree Linson who works for the assistant secretary of the Navy for manpower and reserve affairs. Rudi Williams

Retired Vice Adm. Samuel Gravely, the Navy's first black flag officer, strolls past an exhibit of the first African-American West Point graduate, the Buffalo Soldiers and African Americans who fought in the Revolutionary War and Civil War. Gravely's escort was Navy Lt. Cmdr. Desiree Linson who works for the assistant secretary of the Navy for manpower and reserve affairs. Rudi Williams

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