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Joint Staff Deputy Director for Regional Operations Brig. Gen. Carter Ham, U.S. Army, briefs reporters in the Pentagon on recent operations in Afghanistan and Iraq on May 23, 2006.

Joint Staff Deputy Director for Regional Operations Brig. Gen. Carter Ham, U.S. Army, briefs reporters in the Pentagon on recent operations in Afghanistan and Iraq on May 23, 2006.

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