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Snapshots of what’s happening in the Defense Department.

Sailors in white uniforms carry luggage while walking in between a parallel line of people holding Labrador retrievers with blue bandannas on their necks.

Paw Patrol

Sailors assigned to the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz return to Naval Station Norfolk, Va., July 9, 2026, following a four-month deployment to the U.S. Southern Command area of operations as well as participation in the multinational maritime training event Fleet Exercise 250 and the International Naval Review 250. Among those greeting the sailors in Norfolk were personnel and canines with Mutts With a Mission, a nonprofit whose 3-year-old black Labrador retriever Poseidon serves aboard the ship.

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