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Snapshots of what’s happening in the Defense Department.

U.S. soldiers prepare to sling load a container to a CH-47 Chinook helicopter to be airlifted from Forward Operating Base Hadrian in Deh Rawud village in Uruzgan province to Kandahar Airfield in Afghanistan’s Kandahar province, June 18, 2013.

U.S. soldiers prepare to sling load a container to a CH-47 Chinook helicopter to be airlifted from Forward Operating Base Hadrian in Deh Rawud village in Uruzgan province to Kandahar Airfield in Afghanistan’s Kandahar province, June 18, 2013.

U.S. soldiers prepare to sling load a container to a CH-47 Chinook helicopter to be 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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