The Z-10 helicopter is in production and started being used by China's armed forces in 2009, according to the Justice Department.

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The Defense Department recognizes the need to make the armed forces proportionately reflect the population that the U.S. military defends.

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Our armed forces - like their counterparts in the intelligence community, Department of Homeland Security and law enforcement - have a professional duty to know the enemy and develop appropriate responses to the threat doctrine.

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The commander of the Bogota Police Department, General Hector Daniel Castro, said the bombing was the work of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC).

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The department stressed on Tuesday that these figures are part of previously announced plans to reduce the armed forces by 17, 000, but it is worth looking at the decline in the UK armed forces over the longer term.

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