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Snapshots of what’s happening in the Defense Department.

A sailor plays a bass guitar while a young boy smiles and watches.

Bass Buddies

Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class Adam Smolonsky, assigned to the hospital ship USNS Comfort, teaches bass guitar to a student in Castries, St. Lucia, Sept. 27, 2019. The Comfort is working with health and government partners in Central America, South America and the Caribbean to provide care on the ship and at land-based medical sites.

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