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Snapshots of what’s happening in the Defense Department.

Acting Defense Secretary Patrick M. Shanahan talks to Army Gen. Curtis M. Scaparrotti with people in the background.

Shanahan and Scaparrotti

Acting Defense Secretary Patrick M. Shanahan talks with Army Gen. Curtis M. Scaparrotti, NATO’s supreme allied commander for Europe and the commander of U.S. European Command, at a two-day NATO defense ministerial in Brussels, Feb. 13, 2019.

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