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Snapshots of what’s happening in the Defense Department.

Two sailors read to a group of children in a red-painted room.

Reading the Room

Navy Petty Officer 3rd Class Madison Kirk, right, and Seaman Carlos Duran, assigned to the hospital ship USNS Comfort, read to children receiving care at a hospital in Kingston, Jamaica, Nov. 1, 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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