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Snapshots of what’s happening in the Defense Department.

Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel stands and speaks with a group of people.

Commencement Conversation

Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel speaks with Walter Keats, right, the brother of Robert Keats, Hagel's company commander in Vietnam, and Robert E. Scully, Robert Keats' roommate at West Point, at the commencement ceremony for the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, N.Y., May 25, 2013. Hagel mentioned Keats, who was killed in Vietnam, when he told the graduates that character and courage are the fundamentals of leadership and congratulated them on their commissioning into the Army.

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