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Secretary of Defense Leon E. Panetta pauses to greet a police dog after being given the Bravo Award by Deputy Director of the Pentagon Force Protection Agency Jonathan Cofer during the Pentagon Force Protection Agency's 10-year anniversary celebration at the Pentagon on May 2, 2012. PFPA was established as a Defense Agency on May 3, 2002, in response to the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks and the October 2001 anthrax attacks.

Secretary Panetta pauses to greet a police dog

Secretary of Defense Leon E. Panetta pauses to greet a police dog after being given the Bravo Award by Deputy Director of the Pentagon Force Protection Agency Jonathan Cofer during the Pentagon Force Protection Agency's 10-year anniversary celebration at the Pentagon on May 2, 2012. PFPA was established as a Defense Agency on May 3, 2002, in response to the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks and the October 2001 anthrax attacks.

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