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Snapshots of what’s happening in the Defense Department.

U.S. paratroopers fortify a guard tower with sandbags on Joint Security Station Hasan in the Gilan district in southern Afghanistan's Ghazni province, June 13, 2012.

SANDBAG STRATEGY

U.S. paratroopers fortify a guard tower with sandbags on Joint Security Station Hasan in the Gilan district in southern Afghanistan's Ghazni province, June 13, 2012.

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