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Snapshots of what’s happening in the Defense Department.

An instructor from the Verdugo Fire Academy of Los Angeles County scrapes the remains of a fire to extinguish it during a training exercise on Marine Corps Air Station Miramar with the Miramar Fire Department, Dec. 12, 2009.

FIREFIGHTER TRAINING

An instructor from the Verdugo Fire Academy of Los Angeles County scrapes the remains of a fire to extinguish it during a training exercise on Marine Corps Air Station Miramar with the Miramar Fire Department, Dec. 12, 2009.

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