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Snapshots of what’s happening in the Defense Department.

Service members stand around two small boats in a darkened well deck of a ship under purple lights.

Steadfast Defender

Swedish marines prepare fast assault crafts for small boat operations in the well deck of the dock landing ship USS Gunston Hall during Steadfast Defender 24 in the Norwegian Sea, March 5, 2024. Steadfast Defender is NATO's largest exercise in decades and demonstrates NATO's ability to deploy forces rapidly from across the alliance to reinforce the defense of Europe.

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