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Snapshots of what’s happening in the Defense Department.

Men in combat gear run through an open field toward an explosion.

Rice Paddies

Marines from Company E, 2nd Battalion, 7th Marines, 1st Marine Division run across rice paddies while under heavy machine gun fire during Operation Arizona in Vietnam in June 1967.

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