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Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, reenlists 1st Infantry Division soldiers at Combat Outpost Banchee, in Rashid, Iraq, March 1, 2008. Mullen took a tour and visited locals in the once volatile Baghdad neighborhood that was an Al-Qaeda stronghold and now is a model of reform in Iraq.

REENLISTING IN IRAQ

Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, reenlists 1st Infantry Division soldiers at Combat Outpost Banchee, in Rashid, Iraq, March 1, 2008. Mullen took a tour and visited locals in the once volatile Baghdad neighborhood that was an Al-Qaeda stronghold and now is a model of reform in Iraq.

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