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Snapshots of what’s happening in the Defense Department.

More than a dozen future service members in black shirts raise their right hands while standing in front of the ocean on a sunny day.

Faces of the Future

Alliyah Collier, one of hundreds of future service members, stands in formation for the oath of enlistment administered by Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Kenneth S. Wilsbach at the Hyundai Air and Sea Show in Miami, May 23, 2026. More than 300 recruits took the oath to join the military.

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