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Snapshots of what’s happening in the Defense Department.

From left, U.S. Navy surgeon Cmdr. Jerry Berman, Dr. Henri R. Ford, the surgeon in chief of Los Angles Pediatric Hospital, Dr. Sanjay Gupta, a CNN medical correspondent and practicing neurosurgeon originally from Haiti, and Navy surgeon Lt. Cmdr. Kathryn Berndt prepare a 12-year-old Haitian girl with a severe head injury for surgery aboard the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson off Haiti, Jan. 18, 2010. The surgeons removed a piece of concrete from the child's brain.

From left, U.S. Navy surgeon Cmdr. Jerry Berman, Dr. Henri R. Ford, the surgeon in chief of Los Angles Pediatric Hospital, Dr. Sanjay Gupta, a CNN medical correspondent and practicing neurosurgeon originally from Haiti, and Navy surgeon Lt. Cmdr. Kathryn Berndt prepare a 12-year-old Haitian girl with a severe head injury for surgery aboard the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson off Haiti, Jan. 18, 2010. The surgeons removed a piece of concrete from the child's brain.

From left, U.S. Navy surgeon Cmdr. Jerry Berman, Dr. Henri R. Ford, the surgeon in chief of Los Angles Pediatric Hospital, Dr. Sanjay Gupta, a CNN medical correspondent and practicing neurosurgeon originally from Haiti, and Navy surgeon Lt. Cmdr. Kathryn Berndt prepare a 12-year-old Haitian girl with a severe head injury for surgery aboard the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson off Haiti, Jan. 18, 2010. The surgeons removed a piece of concrete from the child's brain.

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