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Snapshots of what’s happening in the Defense Department.

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Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III answers a question from the media after hosting a virtual meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group at the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., Nov. 16, 2022.

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