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Snapshots of what’s happening in the Defense Department.

U.S. paratroopers and Afghan soldiers move up a wadi during a partnered patrol near the Tarnak River in southern Afghanistan's Ghazni province, June 15, 2012.

U.S. paratroopers and Afghan soldiers move up a wadi during a partnered patrol near the Tarnak River in southern Afghanistan's Ghazni province, June 15, 2012.

U.S. paratroopers and Afghan soldiers move up a wadi during a partnered patrol near the Tarnak River in southern Afghanistan's Ghazni province, June 15, 2012.

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