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Snapshots of what’s happening in the Defense Department.

U.S. Ambassador to Kuwait Deborah K. Jones, left background, and U.S. Navy Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, left foreground, talk with former U.S. Secretaries of State James Baker and retired U.S. Army Gen. Colin Powell, opposite Mullen, at the U.S. Embassy in Kuwait, Feb. 26, 2011. The four were in Kuwait to attend the 50th anniversary of the country’s independence.

ANNIVERSARY GUESTS

U.S. Ambassador to Kuwait Deborah K. Jones, left background, and U.S. Navy Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, left foreground, talk with former U.S. Secretaries of State James Baker and retired U.S. Army Gen. Colin Powell, opposite Mullen, at the U.S. Embassy in Kuwait, Feb. 26, 2011. The four were in Kuwait to attend the 50th anniversary of the country’s independence.

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