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Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, right, receives an escort into a bunker by a member of the 898th Munitions Squadron as he tours a munitions storage facility at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, N.M., Jan. 8, 2014. The squadron is based on Kirtland Air Force Base in Albuquerque.

BUNKER ESCORT

Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, right, receives an escort into a bunker by a member of the 898th Munitions Squadron as he tours a munitions storage facility at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, N.M., Jan. 8, 2014. The squadron is based on Kirtland Air Force Base in Albuquerque.

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