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Snapshots of what’s happening in the Defense Department.

Sonya Schilling and her son, Seaman Joseph Parenti, pose for family photos during a light January snowfall in their hometown of Mount Sterling, Ohio. Parenti was on a training break and headed off to the Navy Nuclear Power Technology Command in Charleston, S.C., where he hopes to become a nuclear propulsion plant operator. Photo by Susan McKay.

Sonya Schilling and her son, Seaman Joseph Parenti, pose for family photos during a light January snowfall in their hometown of Mount Sterling, Ohio. Parenti was on a training break and headed off to the Navy Nuclear Power Technology Command in Charleston, S.C., where he hopes to become a nuclear propulsion plant operator. Photo by Susan McKay.

Sonya Schilling and her son, Seaman Joseph Parenti, pose for family photos during a light January snowfall in their hometown of Mount Sterling, Ohio. Parenti was on a training break and headed off to the Navy Nuclear Power Technology Command in Charleston, S.C., where he hopes to become a nuclear propulsion plant operator. Photo by Susan McKay.

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