What it's really like to live and work on an aircraft carrier
 

What it's really like to live and work on an aircraft carrier
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I grew up fully under the spell of Top Gun.
I wore out my VHS copy of Top Gun when I was 8-years-old, fast-forwarding to all of the scenes with airplanes nearly everyday after school. I fell completely into the movie's*world of fighter jets and macho sailors protecting the free world. My dream, like the dreams of so many other kids of the 1980s, was to grow up to be a naval aviator like Maverick.



As I grew older and began to watch how America fought its wars, I became aware of the awing power of **t just our planes, but our aircraft carriers. Nearly all of our modern military maneuvers from World War II to the present have involved the use of carriers and their arsenal. A modern carrier can transport around 70 planes and helicopters that serve many different roles: Fighters, bombers, electronic warfare, anti-submarine, search and rescue, aerial refueling and more. Read more...

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