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Snapshots of what’s happening in the Defense Department.

A soldier standing in a field works with another on the ground attached to an extended parachute canopy behind them

Parachute Panache

A U.S. Army paratrooper helps a Dutch paratrooper control his parachute in the Netherlands during Falcon Leap, Sept. 16, 2021. Falcon Leap is NATO's largest technical airborne exercise, with more than 1,000 paratroopers from 12 different nations training with one another's equipment for two weeks.

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