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Marine Gen. Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, visits a Marine captain of Golf Company, 2nd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, at a forward operating base in Fallujah, Iraq, Sept. 4, 2007.

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Marine Gen. Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, visits a Marine captain of Golf Company, 2nd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, at a forward operating base in Fallujah, Iraq, Sept. 4, 2007.

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