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Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, center, Army Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Robert F. Hale, the Defense Department's comptroller, testify on the Defense Department's 2015 fiscal year budget request before the Senate Armed Services Committee in Washington, D.C., March 5, 2014.

DEFENSE REQUEST

Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, center, Army Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Robert F. Hale, the Defense Department's comptroller, testify on the Defense Department's 2015 fiscal year budget request before the Senate Armed Services Committee in Washington, D.C., March 5, 2014.

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