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Snapshots of what’s happening in the Defense Department.

Navy Capt. John Pasko undergoes one of his monthly photophoresis treatments, meant to prevent his body from rejecting lung transplants he'd received from two Navy comrades on July 9, 2001. All three men are in advanced recovery. Pasko's unusual live-donor lung transplant experience will be retold March 20 on The Discovery Health Channel program "Super Surgery." Photo courtesy the Pasko family.

Navy Capt. John Pasko undergoes one of his monthly photophoresis treatments, meant to prevent his body from rejecting lung transplants he'd received from two Navy comrades on July 9, 2001. All three men are in advanced recovery. Pasko's unusual live-donor lung transplant experience will be retold March 20 on The Discovery Health Channel program "Super Surgery." Photo courtesy the Pasko family.

Navy Capt. John Pasko undergoes one of his monthly photophoresis treatments, meant to prevent his body from rejecting lung transplants he'd received from two Navy comrades on July 9, 2001. All three men are in advanced recovery. Pasko's unusual live-donor lung transplant experience will be retold March 20 on The Discovery Health Channel program "Super Surgery." Photo courtesy the Pasko family.

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