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Photos

Snapshots of what’s happening in the Defense Department.

Several soldiers jump out of a helicopter in a field in Vietnam.

Helicopter Jump

Soldiers with the Army’s 1st Cavalry Division disembark a UH-1 Iroquois helicopter in the Ia Drang Valley of Vietnam.

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