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Yes it can, although I am still uncertain what happens to the published messages when the service takes a while to fulfill the request. For anyone else trying to do this, I found the stitching together of examples from the tutorials much easier once I found class based examples (http://www.ros.org/wiki/roscpp_tutorials/Tutorials/UsingClassMethodsAsCallbacks)

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