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Snapshots of what’s happening in the Defense Department.

Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates talks to Col. Bond, U.S. Army, at a ground-based interceptor missile silo at Fort Greely, Alaska, on June 1, 2009.

Secretary Gates talks to Col. Bond at a ground-based interceptor missile silo.

Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates talks to Col. Bond, U.S. Army, at a ground-based interceptor missile silo at Fort Greely, Alaska, on June 1, 2009.

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