But it is not in Mr Mullin's unpompous nature to remain angry and disappointed for long.
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Among the reporters who camp out at the Bagram airfield near Kabul, he is generally liked as a no-nonsense, unpompous officer.
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Yet, when she does appear on television, she comes across as sincere, articulate, unpompous and with a genuine passion, like her father, for social justice.