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Snapshots of what’s happening in the Defense Department.

U.S. Navy flight deck personnel push an F/A-18C backwards onto an aircraft elevator on the deck of the aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk (CV 63) on Nov. 29, 2005. The Kitty Hawk Carrier Strike Group is operating in the western Pacific Ocean from its homeport of Yokosuka, Japan.

U.S. Navy flight deck personnel push an F/A-18C backwards onto an aircraft elevator.

U.S. Navy flight deck personnel push an F/A-18C backwards onto an aircraft elevator on the deck of the aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk (CV 63) on Nov. 29, 2005. The Kitty Hawk Carrier Strike Group is operating in the western Pacific Ocean from its homeport of Yokosuka, Japan.

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