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Author and photographer, Greg E. Mathieson Sr. stands in a dust storm at the secluded US Navy SEAL base in Fallujah, Iraq while producing exclusive material for the newly released book, US Naval Special Warfare / US Navy SEALs. Photo: (C) 2011 Greg E. Mathieson Sr. / NSW Publications, LLC

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Dave Gatley is an independent photojournalist who worked with Author and photographer, Greg E. Mathieson Sr. on the newly released book, US Naval Special Warfare / US Navy SEALs. Photo: (C) 2011 Greg E. Mathieson Sr. / NSW Publications, LLC

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A US Navy SEAL Delivery Vehicle (SDV) moves away from a submarine onto its target as shown in the newly release coffee table top book, US Naval Special Warfare / US Navy SEALs. Photo: (C) 2011 Greg E. Mathieson Sr. / NSW Publications, LLC

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Boxes of SECRET documents on the establishment and operations of the US Navy SEALs have remained up opened and declassified for some 50 years until declassified and released for the first time for the making of the newly released coffee table top book, US Naval Special Warfare / US Navy SEALs. Photo: (C) 2010 Greg E. Mathieson Sr. / NSW Publications, LLC

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Women have been permitted to serve on guided-missile submarines such as the USS Ohio since 2009. Now they will be able to serve on smaller submarines used for surveillance, reconnaissance and intelligence-gathering. (U.S. Navy photograph)

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Women have been permitted to serve on guided-missile submarines such as the USS Ohio since 2009. Now they will be able to serve on smaller submarines used for surveillance, reconnaissance and intelligence-gathering. (U.S. Navy photograph)

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In this photo provided by the U.S. Navy, the USS Freedom littoral combat ship pulls into Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The USS Freedom, which is stopping in Hawaii on its way to a deployment to Singapore, has advantages bigger U.S. Navy ships lack. (AP Photo/US Navy, Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Sean Furey)

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** FILE ** In this Jan. 22, 2013, photo released by the Philippine Coast Guard, coast guard divers approach the USS Guardian, a U.S. Navy minesweeper, to assess the situation after it ran aground last week off Tubbataha Reef, a World Heritage Site in the Sulu Sea, 640 kilometers (400 miles) southwest of Manila, Philippines. (AP Photo/Philippine Coast Guard)

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U.S. Navy Cmdr. Job W. Price, 42, of Pottstown, Pa., died on Saturday, Nov. 22, 2012, of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head in Uruzgan Province in Afghanistan. (AP Photo/U.S. Navy)