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Snapshots of what’s happening in the Defense Department.

Three service members crouch around a machine gun.

Machine-Gun Crew

A machine-gun crew assigned to the 24th Infantry Regiment, one of the original Buffalo Soldier units, man a machine gun in Songimbong, South Korea, in February, 1951.

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