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Snapshots of what’s happening in the Defense Department.

U.S. soldiers line up and prepare to be hoisted on a fast-rope line hooked up to a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter during training on Camp Bondsteel, Kosovo, July 18, 2014. The soldiers, assigned to the 2nd Squadron, 38th Cavalry Regiment, 504th Battlefield Surveillance Brigade, are participating in fast-rope insertion and extraction training, and are employed by small units to make rapid infiltration and exfiltration using rotary-wing aircraft in confined areas.

U.S. soldiers line up and prepare to be hoisted on a fast-rope line hooked up to a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter during training on Camp Bondsteel, Kosovo, July 18, 2014. The soldiers, assigned to the 2nd Squadron, 38th Cavalry Regiment, 504th Battlefield Surveillance Brigade, are participating in fast-rope insertion and extraction training, and are employed by small units to make rapid infiltration and exfiltration using rotary-wing aircraft in confined areas.

U.S. soldiers line up and prepare to be hoisted on a fast-rope line hooked up to a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter during training on Camp Bondsteel, Kosovo, July 18, 2014. The soldiers, assigned to the 2nd Squadron, 38th Cavalry Regiment, 504th Battlefield Surveillance Brigade, are participating in fast-rope insertion and extraction training, and are employed by small units to make rapid infiltration and exfiltration using rotary-wing aircraft in confined areas.

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