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Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel passes out coins and thanks motorcade drivers before boarding a P-8 aircraft before leaving Naval Air Station Jacksonville, Fla., July 16, 2013, to go to Charleston, S.C.

PASSING OUT COINS

Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel passes out coins and thanks motorcade drivers before boarding a P-8 aircraft before leaving Naval Air Station Jacksonville, Fla., July 16, 2013, to go to Charleston, S.C.

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