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Snapshots of what’s happening in the Defense Department.

A Coast Guard diver cuts a line connected to chains underwater as other divers watch.

Line Cutter

Coast Guard Petty Officer 2nd Class Connor Madsen, center, cuts a line to hook a bundled chain onto a sunken buoy during a training exercise with South Korean divers as part of Exercise Rim of the Pacific off the coast of Oahu, July 18, 2024. Twenty-nine nations participated in the world's largest international maritime exercise.

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