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Snapshots of what’s happening in the Defense Department.

A patient waits to be seen by Cmdr. Jeff Lowell, U.S. Public Health Service, aboard the USNS Comfort at the Jose Schendal Health Center, Corinto, Nicaragua, July 19. The Comfort is on a four-month humanitarian deployment to Latin America and the Caribbean.

USNS COMFORT

A patient waits to be seen by Cmdr. Jeff Lowell, U.S. Public Health Service, aboard the USNS Comfort at the Jose Schendal Health Center, Corinto, Nicaragua, July 19. The Comfort is on a four-month humanitarian deployment to Latin America and the Caribbean.

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