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It’s dawn on the Indian Ocean. The deck of the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise is alive with activity. Crew members, clad in color-coded uniforms, scramble to prepare jets for launch. Steam billows from the catapult as the roar of engines builds—a powerful symphony of metal and might. The camera pans to an F-14 Tomcat preparing for takeoff. You feel your heart pumping as the jet's engines on the screen scream to life. Then, just as the plane hurtles off the carrier into the o

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