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Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class Amanda Odukwu greets her family after at Naval Station Norfolk, Va., Aug. 21, 2017, upon returning from a seven-month deployment aboard the USS George H. W. Bush. Navy photo by Seaman Jessica L. Dowell

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