Senior Leaders Reflect on Talks With Troops, Wounded

By • on June 29, 2012

Senior Leaders Reflect on Talks With Troops, Wounded

By Karen Parrish
American Forces Press Service

WASHINGTON, June 29, 2012 – The Defense Department’s most-senior civilian and its top military chief said conversations they’ve had with service members deployed in Afghanistan and talks with wounded warriors provide them inspiration and assurance of mission success.

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Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta and Army Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, brief reporters at the Pentagon, June 29, 2012. DOD photo by U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Sun L. Vega