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Snapshots of what’s happening in the Defense Department.

Soldiers load test packages of newly-developed water blivets onto a truck for airdrop from a C-17 Globemaster aircraft on Camp MacKall, N.C., Nov. 9, 2011. The new blivets cost 40 percent less than the current 500-gallon blivet.

Soldiers load test packages of newly-developed water blivets onto a truck for airdrop from a C-17 Globemaster aircraft on Camp MacKall, N.C., Nov. 9, 2011. The new blivets cost 40 percent less than the current 500-gallon blivet.

Soldiers load test packages of newly-developed water blivets onto a truck for airdrop from a C-17 Globemaster aircraft on Camp MacKall, N.C., Nov. 9, 2011. The new blivets cost 40 percent less than the current 500-gallon blivet.

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