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Photos

Snapshots of what’s happening in the Defense Department.

Beyond blue waters, huts sit on a small beach filled with trees.

Kapingamarangi Island

A view of Kapingamarangi Island from the bridge of the salvage ship USS Bolster in 1983.

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