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Snapshots of what’s happening in the Defense Department.

Two men hold onto straps attached to a third man facing an underwater portal in a large tank. Two other men watch.

sub escape trainer

Sailors attached to the Pressurized Submarine Escape Trainer watch as a student performs a breath rate test during a pressurized escape training evolution. Submariner students at Navy Submarine School on Naval Submarine Base New London in Groton, Conn., are taught how to survive during a submarine escape in a two-day class at Momsen Hall.

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