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Snapshots of what’s happening in the Defense Department.

People float in a small boat.

Buoy Deployment

Crew members from the Coast Guard Cutter Elm return in the cutter's small boat after finishing the deployment of one of the two new National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration hurricane detection buoys in the Caribbean Sea, April 17, 2007.

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