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Snapshots of what’s happening in the Defense Department.

A group of sailors in medical uniforms look at a screen in an operating room.

Surgical Screening

U.S. and Japan Maritime Self Defense Force sailors join a local ear, nose and throat doctor to remove a nasal fungal infection from a patient aboard the hospital ship USNS Mercy during Pacific Partnership 2024 in the Solomon Islands, Nov. 21, 2023. Pacific Partnership is the largest annual multinational humanitarian assistance and disaster relief preparedness mission conducted in the Indo-Pacific.

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