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Photos

Snapshots of what’s happening in the Defense Department.

A service member in civilian clothes plays a patty-cake-type game with a child as another looks on.

Village Friends

A service member plays with children during a civil engagement in the village of Chabelley, Djibouti, Jan. 20, 2023.

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