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Snapshots of what’s happening in the Defense Department.

Sailors standing on both sides of a wood casket on a platform lean toward it while draping a U.S. flag over it.

Funeral Honors

Sailors conduct military funeral honors with funeral escort for Seaman 1st Class Aaron L. McMurtrey in Section 69 of Arlington National Cemetery, Va., Feb. 13, 2025. McMurtrey was assigned to the USS California on Dec. 7, 1941, when the battleship sustained multiple torpedo and bomb hits during the attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The attack on the ship resulted in the deaths of 103 crew members, including McMurtrey, who was officially accounted for in 2024 after his remains were identified.

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