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Snapshots of what’s happening in the Defense Department.

A Coast Guardsman holds up a baby.

Dad and Daughter

Matt Gormanous, a crew member of the Coast Guard cutter Stratton, holds his 16-month-old daughter in Alameda, Calif., Nov. 22, 2019, after returning from a deployment in the Western Pacific.

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