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Michael G. Vickers, left, undersecretary of defense for intelligence, listens to a Nov. 3, 2012, briefing presented by Army Col. Danial D. Pick, commandant of the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center, about the institute's foreign language and culture training mission. DOD photo by Natela Cutter

Michael G. Vickers, left, undersecretary of defense for intelligence, listens to a Nov. 3, 2012, briefing presented by Army Col. Danial D. Pick, commandant of the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center, about the institute's foreign language and culture training mission. DOD photo by Natela Cutter

Michael G. Vickers, left, undersecretary of defense for intelligence, listens to a Nov. 3, 2012, briefing presented by Army Col. Danial D. Pick, commandant of the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center, about the institute's foreign language and culture training mission. DOD photo by Natela Cutter

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