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Snapshots of what’s happening in the Defense Department.

A soldier checks a massive bucket.

Big Bucket

Army Staff Sgt. Ge Xiong checks a 600-gallon water bucket before a mission at the Mendocino Complex Fires in Lake, Colusa and Mendocino counties, Calif., Aug. 10, 2018. California National Guard helicopters dropped close to a half-million gallons of water in a week after the Ranch and River fires combined, becoming the largest wildfire in California’s history.

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