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Service members of the 3rd Heavy Brigade Combat Team of the U.S. Army’s 3rd Infantry Division listen as Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta addresses them during a town hall meeting on Fort Benning, Ga., May 4, 2012. Panetta urged the soldiers to always display the strongest character, the greatest discipline and the utmost integrity in everything they do.

TOWN HALL

Service members of the 3rd Heavy Brigade Combat Team of the U.S. Army’s 3rd Infantry Division listen as Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta addresses them during a town hall meeting on Fort Benning, Ga., May 4, 2012. Panetta urged the soldiers to always display the strongest character, the greatest discipline and the utmost integrity in everything they do.

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