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Snapshots of what’s happening in the Defense Department.

Several service members work around a large aircraft at night.

Operation Odyssey Dawn

Airmen of the 28th Maintenance Squadron prepare a B-1B Lancer strategic bomber aircraft to support Operation Odyssey Dawn on Ellsworth Air Force Base, S.D., March 27, 2011. Their work was made especially difficult by severe weather, including four inches of snow, glare ice and freezing fog.

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