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Sailors do a buddy check during a visit, board, search.

Buddy Check

Navy sailors perform buddy checks while conducting boarding, search-and-seizure training aboard the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Donald Cook in the Atlantic Ocean, Oct. 13, 2017. Navy photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Theron J. Godbold

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