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Snapshots of what’s happening in the Defense Department.

An honor guard detail waits to post colors for the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center groundbreaking ceremony at Bethesda Naval Hospital in Md., July 3, 2008. President George W. Bush and Deputy Secretary of Defense Gordon England presided over the event.

HONOR DETAIL

An honor guard detail waits to post colors for the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center groundbreaking ceremony at Bethesda Naval Hospital in Md., July 3, 2008. President George W. Bush and Deputy Secretary of Defense Gordon England presided over the event.

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