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Marine Corps Gen. James E. Cartwright, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, looks inside a mine resistant ambush protected vehicle outside the SPAWAR Integrated Product Center Lab in Charleston, S.C., Jan. 23, 2008. Cartwright visited several production facilities to see firsthand how MRAP vehicles are made and shipped to troops in Iraq.

Marine Corps Gen. James E. Cartwright, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, looks inside a mine resistant ambush protected vehicle outside the SPAWAR Integrated Product Center Lab in Charleston, S.C., Jan. 23, 2008. Cartwright visited several production facilities to see firsthand how MRAP vehicles are made and shipped to troops in Iraq.

Marine Corps Gen. James E. Cartwright, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, looks inside a mine resistant ambush protected vehicle outside the SPAWAR Integrated Product Center Lab in Charleston, S.C., Jan. 23, 2008. Cartwright visited several production facilities to see firsthand how MRAP vehicles are made and shipped to troops in Iraq.

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