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Snapshots of what’s happening in the Defense Department.

U.S. Air Force Captain Amanda Eagan, right, opens a blood bag for U.S. Air Force Airman 1st Class German Martinez as he prepares to hand the blood to the surgeons to use on a patient in the Craig Joint Theater Hospital on Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan, Aug. 5, 2014. Eagan, an operating room nurse, and Martinez, an orthopedic scrub technician, are assigned to the 455th Expeditionary Medical Group.

U.S. Air Force Captain Amanda Eagan, right, opens a blood bag for U.S. Air Force Airman 1st Class German Martinez as he prepares to hand the blood to the surgeons to use on a patient in the Craig Joint Theater Hospital on Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan, Aug. 5, 2014. Eagan, an operating room nurse, and Martinez, an orthopedic scrub technician, are assigned to the 455th Expeditionary Medical Group.

U.S. Air Force Captain Amanda Eagan, right, opens a blood bag for U.S. Air Force Airman 1st Class German Martinez as he prepares to hand the blood to the surgeons to use on a patient in the Craig Joint Theater Hospital on Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan, Aug. 5, 2014. Eagan, an operating room nurse, and Martinez, an orthopedic scrub technician, are assigned to the 455th Expeditionary Medical Group.

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