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Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates speaks to the press aboard his aircraft, a U.S. Air Force E-4B National Airborne Operations Center, over the Pacific after attending the U.S. Pacific Command change-of-command ceremony on Camp Smith, Hawaii, Oct. 19, 2009.

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Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates speaks to the press aboard his aircraft, a U.S. Air Force E-4B National Airborne Operations Center, over the Pacific after attending the U.S. Pacific Command change-of-command ceremony on Camp Smith, Hawaii, Oct. 19, 2009.

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