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Snapshots of what’s happening in the Defense Department.

From left: President-elect Barack Obama, Vice President-elect Joe Biden and Army Maj. Gen. Richard Rowe, chairman of the Armed Forces Inaugural Committee, arrive at the Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va., Jan. 18, 2009. Obama and Biden laid a wreath at tomb as part of inaugural events leading up to his swearing-in ceremony on Jan. 20, 2009.

From left: President-elect Barack Obama, Vice President-elect Joe Biden and Army Maj. Gen. Richard Rowe, chairman of the Armed Forces Inaugural Committee, arrive at the Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va., Jan. 18, 2009. Obama and Biden laid a wreath at tomb as part of inaugural events leading up to his swearing-in ceremony on Jan. 20, 2009.

From left: President-elect Barack Obama, Vice President-elect Joe Biden and Army Maj. Gen. Richard Rowe, chairman of the Armed Forces Inaugural Committee, arrive at the Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va., Jan. 18, 2009. Obama and Biden laid a wreath at tomb as part of inaugural events leading up to his swearing-in ceremony on Jan. 20, 2009.

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