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Snapshots of what’s happening in the Defense Department.

A fully armed MQ-9 Reaper unmanned aerial vehicle taxis down the runway at an air base in Afghanistan on its way to a wartime mission, May 4, 2008.

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A fully armed MQ-9 Reaper unmanned aerial vehicle taxis down the runway at an air base in Afghanistan on its way to a wartime mission, May 4, 2008.

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