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Defense Secretary Robert Gates listens as U.S. Army and Marine trainers embedded with Iraqi units discuss the progress of Iraqi trainees during a breakfast meeting at the Joint Visitors Bureau, in Baghdad, Iraq, Dec. 22, 2006.

BREAKFAST WITH TROOPS

Defense Secretary Robert Gates listens as U.S. Army and Marine trainers embedded with Iraqi units discuss the progress of Iraqi trainees during a breakfast meeting at the Joint Visitors Bureau, in Baghdad, Iraq, Dec. 22, 2006.

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