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U.S. Navy pilots climb into their cockpits to perform final checks on their aircraft before flight operations, Dec. 1, 2006, on the flight deck of the USS Kitty Hawk, which is deployed off the coast of Okinawa, Japan, on a regularly-scheduled deployment.

PRE-FLIGHT CHECKS

U.S. Navy pilots climb into their cockpits to perform final checks on their aircraft before flight operations, Dec. 1, 2006, on the flight deck of the USS Kitty Hawk, which is deployed off the coast of Okinawa, Japan, on a regularly-scheduled deployment.

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