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Snapshots of what’s happening in the Defense Department.

U.S. Army Spc. Francisco Roman, right, and U.S. Army Maj. Murray Reefer, left, cures the palliative material, or patch, applied to U.S. Army Sgt. Preston Yates' tooth on Forward Operating Base Arian in Afghanistan's Ghazni province, April 17, 2012.

U.S. Army Spc. Francisco Roman, right, and U.S. Army Maj. Murray Reefer, left, cures the palliative material, or patch, applied to U.S. Army Sgt. Preston Yates' tooth on Forward Operating Base Arian in Afghanistan's Ghazni province, April 17, 2012.

U.S. Army Spc. Francisco Roman, right, and U.S. Army Maj. Murray Reefer, left, cures the palliative material, or patch, applied to U.S. Army Sgt. Preston Yates' tooth on Forward Operating Base Arian in Afghanistan's Ghazni province, April 17, 2012.

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