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Snapshots of what’s happening in the Defense Department.

Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates talks with Vietnamese Defense Minister Phung Quang Thanh in the Presidential Palace during the Association of Southeast Asian Nations Defense Ministers' Meeting Retreat in Hanoi, Vietnam, on Oct. 12, 2010.

Secretary Gates talks with Vietnamese Defense Minister Phung Quang Thanh.

Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates talks with Vietnamese Defense Minister Phung Quang Thanh in the Presidential Palace during the Association of Southeast Asian Nations Defense Ministers' Meeting Retreat in Hanoi, Vietnam, on Oct. 12, 2010.

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