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Snapshots of what’s happening in the Defense Department.

An older Marine looks over his shoulder at the camera as he sits at a work station in a tent.

Marine Corps Maj. Gen. Alexander Vandegrift

Marine Corps Maj. Gen. Alexander Vandegrift in his command tent on Guadalcanal in 1942.

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