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Snapshots of what’s happening in the Defense Department.

A Coast Guardsman tosses a cylindrical object out of the back of an open aircraft.

Buoy Toss

A Coast Guardsman drops a self-locating datum marker buoy from an aircraft to determine the flow of storm surge during an assessment of damage from Hurricane Michael near Apalachicola, Fla., Oct. 11, 2018.

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