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U.S. Navy Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and U.S. Army Gen. David H Petraeus, commander of the International Security Assistance Force, depart the force's headquarters in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sept. 3, 2010. Mullen made a short stop in the Afghan capital to address Combined Joint Interagency Task Force 435 and receive an operational update from Petraeus.

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U.S. Navy Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and U.S. Army Gen. David H Petraeus, commander of the International Security Assistance Force, depart the force's headquarters in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sept. 3, 2010. Mullen made a short stop in the Afghan capital to address Combined Joint Interagency Task Force 435 and receive an operational update from Petraeus.

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