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U.S. Army Gen. Martin Dempsey, left, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, talks with German air medical evacuation soldiers assigned to the International Security Assistance Force for Regional Command North, about the KC-135 mission in Mazar-e-Sharif, Afghanistan, July 21, 2013.

U.S. Army Gen. Martin Dempsey, left, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, talks with German air medical evacuation soldiers assigned to the International Security Assistance Force for Regional Command North, about the KC-135 mission in Mazar-e-Sharif, Afghanistan, July 21, 2013.

U.S. Army Gen. Martin Dempsey, left, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, talks with German air medical evacuation soldiers assigned to the International Security Assistance Force for Regional Command North, about the KC-135 mission in Mazar-e-Sharif, Afghanistan, July 21, 2013.

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