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Snapshots of what’s happening in the Defense Department.

U.S. sailors pull a rope attached to a small boat carrying Japanese soldiers.

Iron Fist

U.S. sailors pull a combat rubber raiding craft carrying Japanese soldiers aboard the USS Pearl Harbor in the Pacific Ocean, Feb. 6, 2020, during Iron Fist, an exercise designed to enhance U.S. and Japanese forces’ ability to plan, communicate and conduct combined amphibious operations.

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