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Snapshots of what’s happening in the Defense Department.

A sailor wearing a face mask salutes and looks upward while standing in front of a ship wall with a painted red hospital cross on it.

Mercy Salute

Navy Lt. Pamela Resurreccion salutes the flag during morning colors aboard the hospital ship USNS Mercy in Los Angeles, April 30, 2020. The Mercy deployed to serve as a referral hospital for non-COVID-19 patients admitted to shore-based hospitals, allowing those hospitals to focus on COVID-19 cases.

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