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By Elisabeth Bumiller / The Bulletin
November 20, 2011
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta shoved his head into a snug aviator helmet topped with goggles one September morning and swooped into Lower Manhattan on a V-22 Osprey, a $70 million aircraft that Marines use for battlefield assaults in Afghanistan.
“How’d you like that gizmo?” Panetta said after....
