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Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta pauses to greet a police dog after receiving the Bravo Award from Jonathan H. Cofer, deputy director of the Pentagon Force Protection Agency, during the agency's 10th anniversary event at the Pentagon, May 2, 2012. The agency was established on May 3, 2002, in response to the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks and the October 2001 anthrax attacks.

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Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta pauses to greet a police dog after receiving the Bravo Award from Jonathan H. Cofer, deputy director of the Pentagon Force Protection Agency, during the agency's 10th anniversary event at the Pentagon, May 2, 2012. The agency was established on May 3, 2002, in response to the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks and the October 2001 anthrax attacks.

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