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Snapshots of what’s happening in the Defense Department.

Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates (second from left) and Command Sgt. Maj. William J. Gainey (left), senior enlisted advisor to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, eat lunch with soldiers and airmen currently going through transition team training at Camp Funston, Fort Riley, Kan., Aug. 9, 2007.

TROOP LUNCH

Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates (second from left) and Command Sgt. Maj. William J. Gainey (left), senior enlisted advisor to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, eat lunch with soldiers and airmen currently going through transition team training at Camp Funston, Fort Riley, Kan., Aug. 9, 2007.

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