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Deborah Mullen, wife of Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff U.S. Navy Adm. Mike Mullen, speaks with U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Robert Gutierrez at the National Defense Industrial Association 20th Annual Special Operations/Low Intensity Conflict Symposium and Exhibition Award Banquet, Marriott Wardman Park, Washington, D.C., Feb. 11, 2009. Gutierrez, a special tactics air combat controller, repelled an attack of over 240 enemy combatants in Afghanistan in 2008, saving his unit.

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Deborah Mullen, wife of Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff U.S. Navy Adm. Mike Mullen, speaks with U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Robert Gutierrez at the National Defense Industrial Association 20th Annual Special Operations/Low Intensity Conflict Symposium and Exhibition Award Banquet, Marriott Wardman Park, Washington, D.C., Feb. 11, 2009. Gutierrez, a special tactics air combat controller, repelled an attack of over 240 enemy combatants in Afghanistan in 2008, saving his unit.

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