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National Edition News Cover for December 14, 2013 - U.S. Navy-China showdown: The USS Cowpens (CG 63) leads the formation of USS Lassen (DDG 82), USS John S. McCain (DDG 56), USS Vandegrift (FFG 48) and USNS Tippecanoe (T-AO 199) in the Western Pacific Ocean on June 18, 2006, to start exercise Valiant Shield 2006. The joint exercise consists of 28 naval vessels including three carrier strike groups and more than 300 aircraft and approximately 20,000 service members from the Navy, Army, Air Force, Marine Corps and Coast. DoD photo by Airman Benjamin Dennis, U.S. Navy. (Released)
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PACIFIC OCEAN (Sept. 20, 2012) The Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser USS Cowpens (CG 63) fires Standard Missiles (SM) 2 at an airborne drone during a live-fire weapons shoot. Cowpens is part of the George Washington Carrier Strike Group, the U.S. Navy’s only forward deployed carrier strike group, and is conducting a routine patrol of the western Pacific region. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Paul Kelly/Released) 120920-N-TX154-336 Join the conversation http://www.facebook.com/USNavy http://www.twitter.com/USNavy http://navylive.dodlive.mil
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U.S. Navy F-4 Phantom fighter jets and Soviet Tu-95 Bear have a close encounter during the Cold War. (U.S. Navy)
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FILE - In this Dec. 7, 1941 photo provided by the U.S. Navy, sailors stand among wrecked airplanes at Ford Island Naval Air Station as they watch the explosion of the USS Shaw in the background, during the Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. (AP Photo)
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In this photo provided by the U.S. Navy, the wreckage strewn Naval Air Station at Pearl Harbor shown Dec. 7, 1941, after the Japanese sneak attacks. (AP Photo/U.S. Navy)
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In this photo provided by the U.S. Navy, the wreckage strewn Naval Air Station at Pearl Harbor shown Dec. 7, 1941, after the Japanese sneak attacks. (AP Photo/U.S. Navy)
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Black smoke rises from the burning wrecks of several U.S. Navy battleships after they had been bombed during the Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on December 7, 1941. (AP Photo)
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A B-52 Stratofortress flies past the USS Nimitz as two U.S. Navy F/A-18 Hornets intercept. The B-52 is from the 96th Expeditionary Bomb Squadron deployed to Andersen Air Force Base, Guam. (U.S. Navy photo)
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Commanding Officer Captain James Kirk photo credit: US Navy
