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Photos

Snapshots of what’s happening in the Defense Department.

A Marine fires a machine gun out the door of a helicopter as another Marine stands behind.

Marine Machine

Marines fire an M2 .50-caliber machine gun off of a CH-53E Super Stallion helicopter in the South China Sea, March 14, 2020.

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