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A Polish Brigadier General salutes U.S. Navy Lt. Cmdr. Robert Clarady after awarding him the NATO Medal at an International Security Assistance Force Joint Command awards ceremony in Kabul, Afghanistan, Nov. 29, 2009. Clarady is an individual augmentee normally assigned to the staff in the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations at the Pentagon.

AWARD SALUTE

A Polish Brigadier General salutes U.S. Navy Lt. Cmdr. Robert Clarady after awarding him the NATO Medal at an International Security Assistance Force Joint Command awards ceremony in Kabul, Afghanistan, Nov. 29, 2009. Clarady is an individual augmentee normally assigned to the staff in the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations at the Pentagon.

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