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Snapshots of what’s happening in the Defense Department.

A man holds a toddler and reads her a book as a Marine watches.

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Ricky Jean Francois, an NFL defensive tackle, reads a book to his niece at the Marine Corps University Library while touring Marine Corps Base Quantico, Va., with his sister, Maj. Villiana Jean Francois, to help promote a suicide prevention program, July 19, 2018.

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