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Jared Szuba

Jared Szuba

Jul 9, 2020

ARLINGTON, VIRGINIA - MARCH 13: Marine Corps Gen. Kenneth F. McKenzie, commander of U.S. Central Command, talks to journalists about the military response to rocket attacks that killed two U.S. and one U.K. service members in Iraq during a news briefing at the Pentagon March 13, 2020 in Arlington, Virginia. Because of the threat of transmission of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), the Pentagon is exercising social distancing by keeping reporters' chairs four feet apart from each other during briefings. (Pho — Marine Corps Gen. Frank McKenzie, commander of the US Central Command, talks to journalists about the military response to rocket attacks in Iraq that killed three service members — two from the United States and one from the UK — during a news briefing at the Pentagon, March 13, 2020, in Arlington, Virginia. — Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

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