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Photos

Snapshots of what’s happening in the Defense Department.

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Leader Photo

Left to right: Army Gen. Mark A. Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; Japan Ground Self-Defense Force Gen. Koji Yamazaki, Japan’s joint staff chief of staff; and Joseph M. Young, the interim U.S. chargé d’affaires at U.S. Embassy Tokyo, pose for a photo outside the Kantei in Tokyo, Nov. 13, 2019.

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