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Snapshots of what’s happening in the Defense Department.

Soldiers fire a howitzer in a desert.

Howitzer Fire

Soldiers support Iraqi army operations with artillery fire from their M777A2 howitzers in support of Combined Joint Task Force Operation Inherent Resolve in Iraq, Aug. 12, 2018.

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