Secretary of Defense, Chuck Hagel, embraces and laughs with a soldier from the 1/101st Air Assault, in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, March 9, 2013. Hagel is traveling to Afghanistan on his first trip as the 24th Secretary of Defense to visit U.S. Troops, NATO leaders, and Afghan counterparts. (Photo by Erin A. Kirk-Cuomo/Department of Defense/Sipa USA)