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U.S. Navy Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, talks to the traveling media while in route from Afghanistan to Iraq, Dec. 18, 2009. Mullen and his wife, Deborah, are hosting the 2009 USO Holiday Tour visiting troops in Afghanistan, Iraq and Germany.

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U.S. Navy Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, talks to the traveling media while in route from Afghanistan to Iraq, Dec. 18, 2009. Mullen and his wife, Deborah, are hosting the 2009 USO Holiday Tour visiting troops in Afghanistan, Iraq and Germany.

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