Ever since I spent a day training with the National Guard in the early 1980s for a piece I was writing (complete with poison ivy), I've been fascinated by the ballet of military operations, particularly planes. To get big things done efficiently on aircraft carriers, the Navy designs methods of execution and constantly perfects them—with different group…
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