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Snapshots of what’s happening in the Defense Department.

Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai, right, meets with Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, left, at the Presidential Palace in Kabul, Afghanistan, on July 22, 2013. Dempsey is in Afghanistan to meet Afghan senior leaders, NATO members, U.S. leadership and U.S. troops deployed there.

President Karzai meets with Gen. Dempsey

Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai, right, meets with Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, left, at the Presidential Palace in Kabul, Afghanistan, on July 22, 2013. Dempsey is in Afghanistan to meet Afghan senior leaders, NATO members, U.S. leadership and U.S. troops deployed there.

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