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U.S. Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates talks with naval aviators in the ready room while aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, which is under way in the Arabian Sea, Dec. 6, 2010.

U.S. Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates talks with naval aviators in the ready room while aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, which is under way in the Arabian Sea, Dec. 6, 2010.

U.S. Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates talks with naval aviators in the ready room while aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, which is under way in the Arabian Sea, Dec. 6, 2010.

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