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U.S. sailors work at their watch stations in the carrier-controlled approach center aboard the aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis in the Pacific Ocean, Sept. 19, 2009. Stennis is under way conducting fleet replacement squadron carrier qualifications off the coast of Southern California.

WATCH WORK

U.S. sailors work at their watch stations in the carrier-controlled approach center aboard the aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis in the Pacific Ocean, Sept. 19, 2009. Stennis is under way conducting fleet replacement squadron carrier qualifications off the coast of Southern California.

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