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Does The U.S. Need New Weapons For New Wars?
It was a good tour, says the petty officer aboard the U.S.S. Harry S. Truman, just back from Operation Southern Watch in the Persian Gulf. The six-month deployment was a success, he says, because this time out no one died. Quite often someone does. Of course there were the regular "lumps and bumps" among the 6,000 personnel aboard, but fewer of the usual serious injuries: broken bones, fractured skulls, painful burns from steam pipes and jet blasts.
Sailors and pilots must expect an elevated risk of injury on an aircraft carrier, which can handle two outgoing planes and one incoming plane every 30 seconds. The 70,000-pound fighters (and even bigger specialized ...
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