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Photos

Snapshots of what’s happening in the Defense Department.

Several soldiers wearing wide-brimmed hats stand around a U.S. flag with then-Army Col. Theodore Roosevelt.

Rough Riders

Army Col. Theodore Roosevelt and his Rough Riders pose at the top of the hill they captured in the Battle of San Juan during the Spanish-American War in 1898.

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