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Snapshots of what’s happening in the Defense Department.

A Navy officer says hello to his child for the first time after returning home to Naval Air Station North Island in San Diego, Calif., from a deployment aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) on March 1, 2005. The Nimitz-class aircraft carrier Lincoln pulled into San Diego to drop off the sailors and Marines assigned to Carrier Air Wing 2 and then make its transit up the coast to her homeport of Everett, Wash.

A Navy officer says hello to his child for the first time.

A Navy officer says hello to his child for the first time after returning home to Naval Air Station North Island in San Diego, Calif., from a deployment aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) on March 1, 2005. The Nimitz-class aircraft carrier Lincoln pulled into San Diego to drop off the sailors and Marines assigned to Carrier Air Wing 2 and then make its transit up the coast to her homeport of Everett, Wash.

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