Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Mike Mullen, Navy, speaks to soldiers assigned to the 101st Airborne Division at Ft. Campbell, Ky., on Dec. 7, 2009. Mullen traveled to visit the unit that is due to be one of the first deployed under President Barack Obama's plan to surge 30,000 additional forces in Afghanistan.

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