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Snapshots of what’s happening in the Defense Department.

U.S. Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class Cody Askew, center, shouts instructions to U.S. Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class Kenneth Downs, left, and U.S. Navy Seaman Javier Reyes while attaching an SUU-78 pylon to an EA-18G Growler on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson in the U.S. 5th Fleet area of responsibility, Jan. 1, 2015. Askew and Downs are aviation ordnancemen and Reyes is an aviation ordnanceman airman. The Growler is assigned to Electronic Attack Squadron 139.

U.S. Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class Cody Askew, center, shouts instructions to U.S. Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class Kenneth Downs, left, and U.S. Navy Seaman Javier Reyes while attaching an SUU-78 pylon to an EA-18G Growler on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson in the U.S. 5th Fleet area of responsibility, Jan. 1, 2015. Askew and Downs are aviation ordnancemen and Reyes is an aviation ordnanceman airman. The Growler is assigned to Electronic Attack Squadron 139.

U.S. Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class Cody Askew, center, shouts instructions to U.S. Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class Kenneth Downs, left, and U.S. Navy Seaman Javier Reyes while attaching an SUU-78 pylon to an EA-18G Growler on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson in the U.S. 5th Fleet area of responsibility, Jan. 1, 2015. Askew and Downs are aviation ordnancemen and Reyes is an aviation ordnanceman airman. The Growler is assigned to Electronic Attack Squadron 139.

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