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Acting Defense Secretary Patrick M. Shanahan poses for a photo following talks with senior leaders of the Combined Joint Task Force-Operation Inherent Resolve in Baghdad, Feb. 12, 2019.

Acting Defense Secretary Patrick M. Shanahan meets with Army Gen. Austin S. Miller, the commander of NATO's Resolute Support Mission, as they travel from Kabul to Camp Morehead, Afghanistan, Feb. 11, 2019.

Acting Defense Secretary Patrick M. Shanahan walks with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg at the Pentagon before their meeting on issues facing the alliance, Jan. 28, 2019.

Acting Defense Secretary Patrick M. Shanahan accompanies NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg as they enter the Pentagon for a meeting on issues facing the alliance, Jan. 28, 2019.

Acting Defense Secretary Patrick M. Shanahan speaks during the announcement of the release of the 2019 Missile Defense Review at the Pentagon, Jan. 17, 2019.

Acting Defense Secretary Patrick M. Shanahan hosts an honor cordon welcoming Japanese Defense Minister Takeshi Iwaya before a bilateral meeting at the Pentagon, Jan. 16, 2019.

Acting Defense Secretary Patrick M. Shanahan walks with Japanese Defense Minister Takeshi Iwaya while hosting him at the Pentagon, Jan. 16, 2019.

Deputy Defense Secretary Patrick M. Shanahan high-fives a member of the Army football team during a pep rally at the Pentagon, Dec. 7, 2018.

Deputy Defense Secretary Patrick M. Shanahan speaks to reporters at the Pentagon, Nov. 15, 2018.

Left to right: Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson, Army Secretary Mark Esper, Deputy Defense Secretary Patrick M. Shanahan and Defense Secretary James N. Mattis take part in the National Veterans Day Observance at Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Va., Nov. 11, 2018. Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert L. Wilkie led the wreath-laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and delivered the address in the cemetery’s Memorial Amphitheater.

Deputy Defense Secretary Patrick M. Shanahan attends a wreath-laying ceremony to commemorate the 243rd birthday of the Marine Corps at the Marine Corps War Memorial in Arlington, Va., Nov. 9, 2018.

Deputy Defense Secretary Patrick M. Shanahan inducts Medal of Honor recipient and retired Marine Corps Sgt. Maj. John L. Canley into the Hall of Heroes during a ceremony at the Pentagon, Oct. 18, 2018.

Deputy Defense Secretary Patrick M. Shanahan inducts Medal of Honor recipient and former Army Staff Sgt. Ronald J. Shurer II into the Hall of Heroes at the Pentagon, Oct. 2, 2018. DOD photo by Army Sgt. Amber I. Smith

Deputy Defense Secretary Patrick M. Shanahan and Army Secretary Mark T. Esper host a ceremony posthumously inducting Medal of Honor recipient Army 1st. Lt. Garlin M. Conner into the Hall of Heroes at the Pentagon, June 27, 2018.

Deputy Defense Secretary Patrick M. Shanahan and Marine Corps Gen. Joe Dunford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, lay a wreath during the Centenary of Mateship Commemorative Service at the Washington National Cathedral, Washington, D.C., June 27, 2018. In 2018, Australia and the United States celebrate 100 years of mateship that was first forged in the trenches of World War I during the Battle of Hamel, July 4, 1918.