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KABUL, Afghanistan - In his first overseas trip as defense secretary, Chuck Hagel landed Friday in Afghanistan, a country fast fading from political debate and public interest at home, but where 66,000 American troops continue to experience what he described as "the ugly reality of combat and the heat of battle."