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Snapshots of what’s happening in the Defense Department.

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Exit Team

Members of the East Africa Response Force, assigned to Combined Joint Task Force Horn of Africa, stand by to leave Baledogle Airfield, Somalia. The force is an Army National Guard infantry company tasked with providing rapid security augmentation, disaster response assistance and military-assisted departure of State Department personnel at U.S. embassies during crises.

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