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Snapshots of what’s happening in the Defense Department.

Sailors conduct a foreign object damage walk-down prior to flight operations aboard the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis in the Pacific Ocean, Sept. 27, 2006.

CLEARING THE DECK

Sailors conduct a foreign object damage walk-down prior to flight operations aboard the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis in the Pacific Ocean, Sept. 27, 2006.

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