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Snapshots of what’s happening in the Defense Department.

U.S. Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Raul Madrigal, left, instructs Police Constable Henry Sharm-Mion, from the St. Lucia Marine Police Unit, and Able Seaman Julio Charles, from the Antigua and Barbuda Defence Force Coast Guard, on the correct assembly of a M19 grenade machine gun during the patrol craft weapons maintenance course at the Naval Small Craft Instruction and Technical Training School, Stennis Space Center, Miss., March 4, 2009. The mission of Naval Small Craft Instruction and Technical Training School is to provide partner nation security forces with the highest level of riverine and littoral craft operations and maintenance technical training. Students from the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation, which provides professional education and training for civilian, military and law enforcement students from nations throughout the Western Hemisphere, participated in the training.

U.S. Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Raul Madrigal, left, instructs Police Constable Henry Sharm-Mion, from the St. Lucia Marine Police Unit, and Able Seaman Julio Charles, from the Antigua and Barbuda Defence Force Coast Guard, on the correct assembly of a M19 grenade machine gun during the patrol craft weapons maintenance course at the Naval Small Craft Instruction and Technical Training School, Stennis Space Center, Miss., March 4, 2009. The mission of Naval Small Craft Instruction and Technical Training School is to provide partner nation security forces with the highest level of riverine and littoral craft operations and maintenance technical training. Students from the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation, which provides professional education and training for civilian, military and law enforcement students from nations throughout the Western Hemisphere, participated in the training.

U.S. Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Raul Madrigal, left, instructs Police Constable Henry Sharm-Mion, from the St. Lucia Marine Police Unit, and Able Seaman Julio Charles, from the Antigua and Barbuda Defence Force Coast Guard, on the correct assembly of a M19 grenade machine gun during the patrol craft weapons maintenance course at the Naval Small Craft Instruction and Technical Training School, Stennis Space Center, Miss., March 4, 2009. The mission of Naval Small Craft Instruction and Technical Training School is to provide partner nation security forces with the highest level of riverine and littoral craft operations and maintenance technical training. Students from the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation, which provides professional education and training for civilian, military and law enforcement students from nations throughout the Western Hemisphere, participated in the training.

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