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Snapshots of what’s happening in the Defense Department.

Service members use a mannequin to train how to put someone onto a stretcher.

Bearer Training

Stretcher bearers work together to move a simulated casualty onto a stretcher during training aboard the Blue Ridge-class command and control ship USS Mount Whitney in Gaeta, Italy, May 4, 2020. The Mount Whitney is the U.S. 6th Fleet flagship. Its home port is in Gaeta where it operates with a combined crew of U.S. sailors and Military Sealift Command civil service mariners.

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