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Snapshots of what’s happening in the Defense Department.

Samuel Jones, mayor of Mobile, Ala., administers the oath of enlistment to U.S. Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Timothy Reul, assigned to the littoral combat ship pre-commissioning unit Independence, at the Battleship Park Museum in Mobile, Dec. 3, 2008. Jones who served in the Navy for nine years, participated in the ceremony attended by the Independence blue and gold crews.

TAKING THE OATH

Samuel Jones, mayor of Mobile, Ala., administers the oath of enlistment to U.S. Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Timothy Reul, assigned to the littoral combat ship pre-commissioning unit Independence, at the Battleship Park Museum in Mobile, Dec. 3, 2008. Jones who served in the Navy for nine years, participated in the ceremony attended by the Independence blue and gold crews.

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