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Snapshots of what’s happening in the Defense Department.

As seen through a night-vision device, a Halvorsen loader pulls away from a C-130J Super Hercules aircraft on Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan, Feb. 11, 2014. The airmen from the aerial port and airlift squadrons support operations 24 hours a day at the U.S. Defense Department's busiest single runway airfield.

As seen through a night-vision device, a Halvorsen loader pulls away from a C-130J Super Hercules aircraft on Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan, Feb. 11, 2014. The airmen from the aerial port and airlift squadrons support operations 24 hours a day at the U.S. Defense Department's busiest single runway airfield.

As seen through a night-vision device, a Halvorsen loader pulls away from a C-130J Super Hercules aircraft on Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan, Feb. 11, 2014. The airmen from the aerial port and airlift squadrons support operations 24 hours a day at the U.S. Defense Department's busiest single runway airfield.

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