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Snapshots of what’s happening in the Defense Department.

Ileen Rogers of the Military Child Education Coalition introduces Navy Chief Petty Officer Bernard Curtis Brown at the annual coalition conference held recently in San Antonio, Texas. Brown's son is the namesake of the MCEC's new Bernard Curtis Brown II Memorial NASA Space Camp Scholarship. The young Brown, 11, died aboard American Airlines Flight 77 when the terrorists slammed the plane into the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001. Photo by Rudi Williams.

Ileen Rogers of the Military Child Education Coalition introduces Navy Chief Petty Officer Bernard Curtis Brown at the annual coalition conference held recently in San Antonio, Texas. Brown's son is the namesake of the MCEC's new Bernard Curtis Brown II Memorial NASA Space Camp Scholarship. The young Brown, 11, died aboard American Airlines Flight 77 when the terrorists slammed the plane into the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001. Photo by Rudi Williams.

Ileen Rogers of the Military Child Education Coalition introduces Navy Chief Petty Officer Bernard Curtis Brown at the annual coalition conference held recently in San Antonio, Texas. Brown's son is the namesake of the MCEC's new Bernard Curtis Brown II Memorial NASA Space Camp Scholarship. The young Brown, 11, died aboard American Airlines Flight 77 when the terrorists slammed the plane into the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001. Photo by Rudi Williams.

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