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Adm. Edmund Giambastiani listens to a reporter's question during a press briefing.
Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Edmund Giambastiani, U.S. Navy, listens to a reporter's question during a press briefing with Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld in the Pentagon on Aug. 23, 2005.