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Snapshots of what’s happening in the Defense Department.

Several U.S. soldiers stand in the front of a room with light greenish walls and address seated Mauritanian troops.

Mauritania Briefing

U.S. soldiers assigned to the 360th Civil Affairs Brigade, 478th Civil Affairs Battalion (Airborne), brief Mauritanian soldiers as part of a collaborative effort to strengthen civil-military cooperation in the region.

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