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Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel and Army Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (not pictured), brief the press at the Pentagon, April 10, 2013. Hagel and Dempsey discussed President Barack Obama's budget directive for the 2014 fiscal year as well as the continuing effects of sequestration on the defense budget.

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Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel and Army Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (not pictured), brief the press at the Pentagon, April 10, 2013. Hagel and Dempsey discussed President Barack Obama's budget directive for the 2014 fiscal year as well as the continuing effects of sequestration on the defense budget.

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