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Snapshots of what’s happening in the Defense Department.

Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta, right, chats with Coast Guard Adm. Robert J. Papp Jr., commandant of the Coast Guard, center, and. Dennis Muilenburg, president and CEO of Boeing Space, Defense and Security, at the Centennial Commemorative Gala for Naval Aviation at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C., Dec. 1, 2011.

AVIATION CELEBRATION

Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta, right, chats with Coast Guard Adm. Robert J. Papp Jr., commandant of the Coast Guard, center, and. Dennis Muilenburg, president and CEO of Boeing Space, Defense and Security, at the Centennial Commemorative Gala for Naval Aviation at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C., Dec. 1, 2011.

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