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Deputy Defense Secretary Ashton B. Carter, left, talks with Sir Nigel Sheinwald, the U.K. Ambassador to the United States, during a meeting in Carter's Pentagon office, Dec. 22, 2011. Sheinwald, the U.K.'s ambassador to the United States since October 2007, soon will leave the post. This trip has provided Sheinwald with a chance to say farewell and to review the status of various cooperative programs jointly implemented by the two nations.

AMBASSADOR'S FAREWELL

Deputy Defense Secretary Ashton B. Carter, left, talks with Sir Nigel Sheinwald, the U.K. Ambassador to the United States, during a meeting in Carter's Pentagon office, Dec. 22, 2011. Sheinwald, the U.K.'s ambassador to the United States since October 2007, soon will leave the post. This trip has provided Sheinwald with a chance to say farewell and to review the status of various cooperative programs jointly implemented by the two nations.

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