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Snapshots of what’s happening in the Defense Department.

U.S. Deputy Defense Secretary Ash Carter, center, and David S. Sedney, deputy assistant secretary of defense for Afghanistan, Pakistan and Central Asia, left, thank a group of senior officers as they exit a meeting with U.S. Marine Corps Gen. Joseph F. Dunford Jr. and other allied officials at International Security Assistance Force headquarters in Kabul, Afghanistan, May 12, 2013. Dunford is commander of the international force and U.S. forces in Afghanistan.

U.S. Deputy Defense Secretary Ash Carter, center, and David S. Sedney, deputy assistant secretary of defense for Afghanistan, Pakistan and Central Asia, left, thank a group of senior officers as they exit a meeting with U.S. Marine Corps Gen. Joseph F. Dunford Jr. and other allied officials at International Security Assistance Force headquarters in Kabul, Afghanistan, May 12, 2013. Dunford is commander of the international force and U.S. forces in Afghanistan.

U.S. Deputy Defense Secretary Ash Carter, center, and David S. Sedney, deputy assistant secretary of defense for Afghanistan, Pakistan and Central Asia, left, thank a group of senior officers as they exit a meeting with U.S. Marine Corps Gen. Joseph F. Dunford Jr. and other allied officials at International Security Assistance Force headquarters in Kabul, Afghanistan, May 12, 2013. Dunford is commander of the international force and U.S. forces in Afghanistan.

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