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Snapshots of what’s happening in the Defense Department.

A M777A2 howitzer sling-loaded to a CH-47 Chinook helicopter is airlifted from Forward Operating Base Hadrian in Deh Rawud village in Uruzgan province to Kandahar Airfield in Afghanistan’s Kandahar province, June 18, 2013.

A M777A2 howitzer sling-loaded to a CH-47 Chinook helicopter is airlifted from Forward Operating Base Hadrian in Deh Rawud village in Uruzgan province to Kandahar Airfield in Afghanistan’s Kandahar province, June 18, 2013.

A M777A2 howitzer sling-loaded to a CH-47 Chinook helicopter is airlifted from Forward Operating Base Hadrian in Deh Rawud village in Uruzgan province to Kandahar Airfield in Afghanistan’s Kandahar province, June 18, 2013.

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