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Snapshots of what’s happening in the Defense Department.

A Marine conducts a band with people in the background.

Beirut Memorial

Marine Corps Staff Sgt. Alan Phillips directs the 2nd Marine Division Band during a ceremony at the Lejeune Memorial Gardens in Jacksonville, N.C., Oct. 23, 2018, to mark the 35th anniversary of the bombing at U.S. Marine Barracks, Beirut, and Operation Urgent Fury in Grenada, and to remember the lives lost in both.

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