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Strolling down Coupeville’s historic waterfront early this summer might have meant completely missing the Island County Museum according to Executive Director Rick Castellano.

The museum’s front garden had long overgrown since first finding its home on the Northwest end of Front Street 25 years ago. As a result, its identifying faded-red sign had been overtaken by an unruly shrub for much of that time.

That was, until STG3 Austin Kenobi and his fellow crewmates from the USNS Victorious Gold offered to help. On Aug. 5, Kenobi and 17 others from Naval

Air Station Whidbey Island lent Catellano a hand with the museum’s landscaping.

“Everything about the museum’s exterior was getting to be 25 years old, and with the plants, people couldn’t even see our sign anymore,” Castellano said. “We actually heard someone walking by on the sidewalk say ‘oh, there’s a museum here!’

“That was the payoff, to hear that comment.”

The crew volunteered much of their Friday to remove ivy, trim back bushes and repaint the nowvisible sign, all improvements that Castellano said will likely bring

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A crew of sonar technicians stationed at NAS Whidbey has made it their priority to volunteer once a week, giving back to their host community. The crew recently did landscaping work for the Island County Museum on Aug. 5.

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Kenobi and his crew members work together at the Naval Ocean Processing Facility, or NPOF, as sonar technicians that search the bottom of the ocean looking at oceanographic features and tracking marine mammals. When and if they deploy, they do so together.

According to Kenobi, his crew has made it a priority to volunteer together throughout the island. It’s important to him and the others to give back to their host-community, Kenobi said.

“Volunteering is something that’s been a priority in my own life, and it’s great to have a crew with the same view,” he said.“It’s enjoyable to go out there and use our hands to help make a difference.”

While volunteering is encouraged and certainly available to all Naval crews, Kenobi said his crew has tried to take their efforts to a much higher level. The Navy is about serving others, he said, and his crew hopes to uphold that image through volunteering.

“Honestly, we all work together, but when we get out there and someone asks for our help, it’s really on us to come out of our comfort zone and work together,” he said. “That’s really powerful and a big part of it.”

As the crew’s volunteer coordinator, Kenobi said he tries to plan a volunteer project at least every Friday, though the crew’s

work schedule isn’t always compatible with that goal.

Since forming two months ago, the crew has already worked on three projects. On July 15, they volunteered at the WAIF Thrift Shop in Oak Harbor, cleaning, organizing and redesigning displays in the store.

Kenobi also coordinated a beach cleanup at Flintstone and Windjammer parks the following week.

“Our entire crew stormed the coastline and ended up collecting seven industrial size trash bags full of litter scattered along the shore,” he said. “We collected everything from shotgun shells to an entire fire hose that was tangled throughout the driftwood and sand.”

Kenobi hopes their next project will be working with Castellano again, this time at Fort Casey.

According to Kenobi, the museum plans on obtaining several World War I cannons for Fort Casey and his crew would like to help them renovate the historic site.

“We’re really excited about that one, so if we can pull that off, we’d be pretty happy,” he said.

With the museum’s 25th anniversary this year, Castellano believes the help couldn’t have come at a better time. He has been working with the waterfront association and others to see how to better utilize the front garden Kenobi’s crew

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STG3 Austin Kenobi, volunteer coordinator for his crew, organized a beach clean-up at Flintstone and Windjammer parks on July 22, 2016. Their second volunteering project, the crew collected 7 industrial-sized trash bags of litter along the coastline.

cleaned up as an outdoor extension of the museum.

While he and other volunteers have tried working on the garden, Castellano said the large crew accomplished more in half a day than they could’ve in several weeks. And with the crew planning to help with the museum’s next project, he’s looking forward to what else they can accomplish.

“It’s amazing to see this group reaching out to see what they can help with,” he said.

“I can’t thank them enough.”

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The 18 member crew, above, from NAS WI’s Naval Ocean Processing Facility helped with

much-needed landscaping in the Island County Museum’s front garden on Aug. 5.

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By RON NEWBERRY Whidbey News Group

When J. Pepper Bryars first began thinking about writing a book about the Iraq War, his motivation was to depict a more accurate portrayal of why he felt Americans were drawn to military service.

“I would look at books written about Iraq, about the military in general, especially films, and what bothered me is they always seemed to paint our soldiers and our marines, our airmen and our sailors, as unwitting participants in the military,” Bryars said.

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“I wanted to tell a story about what went right in Iraq,” Bryars said, “and that was what our soldiers, our warfighters, the marines did on the ground. There’s a lot of debate about the decisions to go to war.

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Olsen also was part of a special operations team in Iraq who hunted down high value targets, or HVTs, particularly the “most wanted” dozens whose faces were infamously portrayed on decks of cards that were distributed to coalition forces by the U.S. military.

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To identify individuals to focus on in his book, Bryars reviewed service records of military members who received awards for valor so he could zero in on moments during the Iraq War that were pivotal.

Olsen received the Silver Star Medal, the third-highest military decoration for valor, for leading a rescue of two downed Apache helicopter pilots during a firefight in 2003.

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After returning to the base, Olsen was pulled aside and congratulated by individuals he’d never met who said they’d watched the raid from satellite video and saw him tackle who they referred to as a “very bad guy” who was “pretty high up” on the deck of cards.

Bryars, who began his writing career for military newspapers while serving in the Army National Guard, said it took two years to research, interview and write the book and wait for it to make it through the clearance process at the Pentagon.

In the case of Olsen, who is now 38 and serving in the Army National Guard for Connecticut while attending college and living in Springfield, Mass., the process involved a collaboration of phone conversations, texts and emails to produce the finished account.

“The interesting thing about Jeremiah is he was very humble, almost to the point of not wanting to discuss the story,” Bryars said.

“Actually, when I spoke with him, he didn’t think it was a big deal what he did

over there. He said, ‘Hey, there were hundreds of us over there in my unit and there were thousands of us over there in the Army. I didn’t do anything special.

I was just doing my job.’”

The fact that Olsen was part of the 2nd Ranger Battalion, based at Joint Base Lewis-McChord near Tacoma, caught his attention. The chapter discusses at length what it took for him to become a Ranger.

“While I was not in any elite unit,” Bryars said, “I know enough to really know that the Rangers are as close as we can get to super soldiers.”

Olsen, who was part of Coupeville High School’s Class of 1995, spent nearly five years in active duty before taking on contracted security work in Iraq. He then got into the National Guard, earned a college degree and is now applying to enter a physician’s assistant program.

He downplays any heroics attributed to him in Iraq. To him, everything was about his unit.

“I mean, it’s not for me,” Olsen said of Bryars’ book.

“It just gives a picture of what people who were in that unit were going through. Nothing I did was special. That’s a great group of soldiers. There’s a reason it’s so brutal to get into it. I don’t think I did anything more special than anybody else.”

Olsen said the bond is immense among Rangers,

even after a decade from serving together.

When he runs into or gets back in contact with a former Ranger from his battalion, “it’s like a day didn’t pass. I’ve never seen anything like that.”

Olsen was in the same area in the mountains of Afghanistan when former NFL star Pat Tillman was killed by friendly fire in April 2004.

Tillman also was part of the 2nd Rangers Battalion

who joined the Army’s elite unit after Olsen had already been on a few deployments.

“You could hear the firefight in the distance,” Olsen said.

Olsen said Tillman was “very humble,” was always

working out and was built “like a brick.”

He said his sacrifice to his country, turning down fame and fortune to serve, was immeasurable.

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By RON NEWBERRY Whidbey News Group

It’s not often one can spin a ship’s wheel in the comfort of his own home.

Roger Sherman can spin four of them.

The den inside Sherman’s Coupeville home could

be confused for a nautical museum of Whidbey Island.

The room is a collection of wood and brass artifacts from compasses to propellors, and features historic photos and maps on custom-built oak walls.

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After collecting the nautical artifacts for much of his life, the retired farmer needed a place to put them.

So, in 1996, he went all out and had the mostly bare room remodeled, transforming it into what resembles the officer’s quarters of a 19th century square-rig sailing ship.

Even the ceiling is arched with oak panels, and there are “port lights” on the walls that illuminate blackand-white images of historic ships.”

It’s almost as if Sherman is at sea in his basement.

“His galley really captures the essence of being inside an old ship — but with a cool pool table and all the comforts of home nearby,” said Rick Castellano, executive director of the Island County Museum.

So why go to such deep measures?

“I had all of these nautical collectibles and no place to put them,” Sherman said.

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Although he was a fourth-generation farmer, Sherman has carried a fascination for the sea.

He spent more than 25 years volunteering with the Boy Scouts of America Sea Explorer program and was the skipper of a 65-foot vessel.

Al Sherman, also a retired farmer, said that he believes his brother’s interest in the sea started when he first experienced scuba diving while serving in the Air Force and being stationed for 10 months in Miami, Fla. “That was not the main reason I became interested in everything nautical,” Roger Sherman said, “but it was certainly part of it.”

The interest runs deeper.

He grew up hearing tales about a steamship named the Calista that was carrying his relatives when it was struck by a freighter and sank in Puget Sound waters.

The Calista was a Coupeville-based steamer that ran the Seattle to

Whidbey route from 1911 to 1922, carrying passengers and freight.

In the late morning of July 27, 1922, the Calista entered a thick fog as it approached Seattle and was struck by a Japanese freighter. It sank in 28 minutes, but all 75 people on board, including members of Sherman’s extended family, survived.

The tale gripped Sherman’s fascination in maritime history, and he wound up writing a book that was centered around the incident titled “The Sinking of the Calista: Part 1 of a Maritime History of Central Whidbey Island,” which he self-published in 1998.

Eighteen years later, there is work on Part 2.

“Everyone’s been bugging him since he wrote, ‘The Sinking of the Calista,’ because he put part one on there,” Castellano said.

“That was definitely a mistake,” Sherman said.

“I’m not very fast.”

Sherman, 81, said in July he was nearly half done with the second book and will finish it as long as his health allows. He wants to go into more depth about the island’s maritime history, including the role of Ebey’s Landing and the island’s fishing resorts.

Castellano considers him one of the island’s resident experts on maritime history. He’s seen Sherman’s den, which includes four ship wheels, including one from the ferry that used to travel from North Whidbey to Camano Island known as the Acorn.

“It’s cool, man. It’s his thing,” Al Sherman said.

“He’s done a great job.”

Roger Sherman has evened scored a few points with his wife, Darlene, too, as evidenced by another remodel upstairs years later.

It was part of the deal to re-do another room should they remodel the den.

“She got her kitchen,” Roger Sherman said.

Historic peace boat makes way through Penn Cove

By KATE DANIEL Whidbey News Group

The golden rule — to treat others as you would like to be treated — is one imparted to us as children, a sort of general guideline laid out for humans in hopes they will abide by it by being respectful, considerate and kind.

On Aug. 17, the Golden Rule Peace Boat made its way into Penn Cove, an emblem of its namesake and a piece of history.

The vessel first made waves in 1958, when a crew of Quaker anti-nuclear weapons activists sailed defiantly from San Pedro en route to the nuclear test zone at Eniwetok atoll in the Marshall Islands in an attempt to intervene in U.S. government’s atmospheric testing of nuclear weapons in the area.

At that time, both the United States and Soviet Union were conducting aboveground nuclear weapons tests, producing radioactive fallout and contamination, according to the vessel’s sponsoring organization, Veterans for Peace.

The crew’s mission was thwarted, and each of the members of

that first expedition were jailed in Honolulu. Their very public protest, however, brought the dangers of nuclear testing to the forefront of Americans’ minds and led to the movement resulting in the Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty of 1963.

The guiding principle of the Golden Rule’s crew has always been, and continues to be, the use of nonviolent direct action.

In August, the current crew stopped by to give a presentation at the Coupeville Rec Hall while in the middle of a four-month tour of the Pacific Northwest.

The event was sponsored

by Veterans for Peace and the Citizens of Ebey’s Reserve.

During the presentation, Helen Jaccard, Veterans for Peace Golden Rule project manager, explained that their voyage through the Salish Sea is timely because of the U.S. government’s announcement that one trillion dollars will be allocated over the next 30 years to “modernize” the nation’s nuclear weapons arsenal.

It is, according to the vessel’s crew, a violation of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty signed

by the U.S. July 1, 1968.

Veterans for Peace, along with a group of Quakers, were largely responsible for restoring the Golden Rule when it was sold in a state of disrepair in 2010.

It had changed hands a few times in the decades since its first sailing, and a fierce gale had nearly demolished it where it had been docked in California.

The then-owner, unaware of the wooden boat’s history, nearly torched it in a bonfire but spared it from the flames upon hearing its tale.

The extensive restoration project was completed in June 2015, at which time the vessel made its way onto the water once again to continue its mission of peace.

Its first destination was the Veterans for Peace Conference. In June 2016, the boat also protested in the waters of Fleet Week in Portland. Jaccard explained that the parade of war ships, like the Blue Angels, is aimed at recruiting young people.

“It makes war sexy and we don’t like that,” she said.

The boat also protested in Port

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The Golden Rule, right, first set sail in protest against nuclear warfare in 1958. It was the first environmental and peace activism vessel of its kind.

Townsend against the Indian Islands munitions transfer station.

“Not many wooden boats have had a mission in their lives,” Jaccard said.

She noted that in each of the ports they have visited, local residents have expressed their own concerns related to nuclear energy or other military-related subjects.

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She and other members of the crew encouraged attendees to become activists themselves, taking a stand on issues to enforce change.

Tom Ewell, a member of COER and one of the event coordinators, extended a special thanks to veterans in this regard.

“Veterans are key in addressing some of these military issues,” he said.

InsIde Homes for Heroes honors Oak Harbor financial group Homes for Heroes, Inc., which provides various savings to five groups of individuals considered heroes, recognized local businesswomen Kris Crane last month for having served 106 heroes since bringing the national program to Western Washington in 2013.

Crane was inducted into the program’s 100 Heroes Served Club and honored for providing over $165,000 in Hero Rewards savings through her mortgage company to local military personnel and veterans, law enforcement personnel, firefighters, teachers and emergency medical professionals and healthcare workers.

The company, Crane Financial Group, is a full service direct lender with the authority to approve and fund loans for customers looking to purchase or refinance a home.

The company cuts its own profits to provide local heroes with savings or a credit on their closing costs when buying, selling or refinancing a home, according to the Oak

Harbor native.

Though the company is established in Snohomish, Crane recently opened a new office in Oak Harbor with the hope of serving the heroes throughout her hometown.

Since November alone, the company has served 20 Island County hero families with over $69,000 in Hero Credits through the new office.

“Kris exemplifies what it truly means to be a member of this program,” said Homes for Heroes CEO and Founder Ruth Johnson in a recent press release.

“Being a Homes for Heroes affiliate requires more than just helping heroes with their real estate needs, it means getting involved in the local community and helping heroes with whatever they need.

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“We couldn’t be more proud to have someone of her caliber as a part of our team and representing local community heroes.”

Kris Crane, at left, is the founder and manager of Crane Financial Group, a local mortgage company that participates in the Homes for Heroes program. Crane was recently honored for having served 106 heroes since joining the program in 2013, giving back $165,000 in savings.

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Born in Keokuk, Iowa, and raised near Hannibal, Mo., CDR Bogue graduated from Iowa State University with a Bachelor of Science degree in botany and received his commission as an Bogue Ensign from the Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps (N-ROTC) program in 1997. After completing Naval Flight Officer training in Pensacola, Fla., he reported to VAQ-129 for Fleet Replacement Training in the EA-6B Prowler. Between 2001 and 2014, CDR Bogue deployed six times in support of Operation Southern Watch, Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom.

In July 2014, CDR Bogue moved back to the Pacific Northwest and began Fleet Replacement transition training in the EA-18G with VAQ-129. After completion of the transition syllabus, CDR Bogue reported to the Gauntlets of VAQ-136 to serve as Executive Officer. In September 2015, CDR Bogue deployed with the Gauntlets in USS GEORGE WASHINGTON (CVN 73) to South America and participated in UNITAS PAC and UNITAS LANT exercises.

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precariousness of the survivor’s location,” said Lt. Adam Laakso, the SAR copilot who was also on his first mission with the unit, “Ultimately, the mission was a perfect example of a crew working together, utilizing an effective mixture of training and experience, in order to provide timely care to an individual in need.”

This was the 17th rescue of 2016 for NAS Whidbey Island SAR, which has also conducted seven searches and eight Medical Evacuation missions this year. The Navy SAR unit operates three MH-60S helicopters from NAS Whidbey Island as search and rescue platforms for the EA-18G aircraft as well as other squadrons and personnel assigned to the installation. The base also has an agreement to assist Washington state and the surrounding areas with medical evacuations and search and rescue activities if other assets are unavailable.

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People interested in hunting on Naval Air Station Whidbey Island property during the 2016-17 season are invited to a “OneStop-Shop” meeting this month.

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Hunters may register, pay the $13 permit fee and receive an installation hunting permit. Civilian hunters may participate in the pheasant release and upland game program on the installation. To participate in on-base hunting programs, all civilian hunters must submit to a National Crime Information Check background check at NAS Whidbey

A Search and Rescue team of five from Naval Air Station Whidbey Island conducted a rescue mission on Mount Stuart, Wash., on Saturday, Aug. 13, 2016.

The SAR alert crew received a call on Saturday evening to rescue a severely injured 29-year-old female in Chelan County, expected to be at 8,800 feet. The crew launched at 8:20 p.m. and arrived on scene 45 minutes later where they immediately spotted the survivor, thanks to her hiking party’s flashlights.

After evaluating the area and noting the relatively high temperatures, the crew determined they would not initially have the power margin required to conduct the rescue. Based on this, the crew opted to land in a valley at a lower altitude to offload gear to make the helicopter as light as possible.

A couple minutes later, the crew took off again, weighing approximately 1,000 pounds less than before, and found that they now had an acceptable power margin for hovering. With limited time remaining to stay on station, the crew hovered about 100 feet above the survivor and lowered the Helicopter Inland Rescue Aircrewman to the ground. After quickly evaluating the survivor, the HIRA secured her into the rescue vest and the two were hoisted into the helicopter. The crew flew as quickly as possible toward Seattle and landed at Harborview Medical Center about 25 minutes later where the patient was transferred to higher care.

“Every aspect of this mission required a deliberate discussion of the risks involved by all members of the crew due to the

To request access to hunt and get an NCIC background check, pick up a form at the base’s Pass & ID office, building 2853, just outside Langley Gate at Ault Field. Call 360257-5620 for information. Langley Gate is open from 7:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday through Friday.

Barring any issues, a NCIC check can be completed within five minutes. When submitting a request, applicants must sign it in person at Pass & ID and present proper personal identification. No background check can be initiated after 3 p.m.

All hunters must have a Washington state hunting license to be issued a permit. There are no vendors of state licenses available on the installation. Hunters must present all licenses for the species they wish to hunt to acquire an installation hunting permit.

Specific documents required to get your installation hunting permit are as follows: n Pheasant and upland game hunters must bring a Department of Defense-issued identification or stateissued identification and approved NCIC background check and a Western Washington Pheasant License; n Waterfowl hunters must present a Department of Defense-issued identification card, Washington state small game license, state migratory bird validation and federal duck stamp, and; n Deer hunters must present Department of Defenseissued identification card, Washington state big game license with archery only deer option and transport tag. n For more information, call John Phillips at the installation Environmental Office at 360-257-8873.

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Base machinists raise $7,500 for food banks Machinists Union members who work at Whidbey Island Naval Air Station raised more than $7,500 at their recent charity golf tournament.

The tournament at Avalon Golf Links attracted 48 golfers and raised $7,654, which was a fundraising record for the fourth-annual tournament.

The team of Rich Bach, Bill Herrmann, Robb Lindell and Stan Sawhill won the four-man best ball tournament.

The money will be split between two food banks: North Whidbey Help House and Helping Hands Food Bank in Sedro-Wooley.

“Our Machinists at NAS Whidbey – and really all of our members, across our whole union – are so generous,” said Richard Jackson, the chief of staff for Machinists Union District Lodge 751. “We had a lot of support from some great volunteers and sponsors, and, as a result, we had a lot of fun raising money for a great cause.”

District 751 represents more than 175 civilian workers at NAS Whidbey, employed by defense contractors Delaware Resources Group, Doss Aviation and URS Corp.

Wizards return home after seven months On Aug. 10, the “Wizards” of Electronic Attack Squadron (VAQ) 133 returned home to Naval Air Station Whidbey Island after a seven-month deployment in the Western Pacific on board USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74).

The Wizards departed Jan. 15 and conducted operations in the Pacific Ocean, Sea of Japan, Philippine Sea and South China Sea. This deployment marked the Squadron’s first deployment utilizing the EA-18G Growler. The Growler and its aircrew proved successful in the electronic attack mission.

VAQ-133 accumulated more than 2,400 hours and 750 arrested landings in support of Western Pacific operations.

While deployed, VAQ-133 conducted unit-level training, large-force exercises and dual-carrier operations.

On April 4, they joined Carrier Strike Group (CSG) 3 and entered South China Sea. Operations in the South China Sea concluded June 18 when Stennis was relieved

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IAM 751 Whidbey Golf Tournament winners, from left, Bill Herrmann, Robb Lindell, Rich Bach and Stan Sawhill, show off with their trophies. The tournament, sponsored by Machinists Union members who work for contractors at Naval Air Station Whidbey Island, raised $7,500 for North Puget Sound food banks.

tunity allowed aircrewmen to participate in air-defense drills, defensive air combat training, long-range strikes, coordinated maneuvers and other exercises with Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 5 to hone their skills and promote interoperability. Additionally, top U.S. leaders took the time to visit sailors during the deployment including Vice President Joe Biden, Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter, and numerous U.S. Ambassadors and foreign dignitaries from nations surrounding the Indo-Asia-Pacific region.

To conclude their deployment, the Wizards and CSG-3 joined forces with 26 countries from around the world, including China, Japan, Argentina, Chile, Canada, Italy and many others, to perform the largest maritime war-atsea exercise in the world. The Rim of the Pacific Exercise (RIMPAC) offered sailors an opportunity to operate in a multi-national environment that seeks to build partnerships and promote cohesive operations between allies for future contingencies.

Blue Angel making museum new home The National Naval Aviation Museum has granted The Museum of Flight the permanent loan of a McDonnell Douglas F/A-18C retired this year from the Blue Angels flight demonstration team. Distinguished as “Number 2” in the famous group of flyers, the big blue jet was trucked from Pensacola, Fla., to the Museum. The aircraft was partially disassembled for the trip and arrival at the museum in late August. The plane was immediately reassembled and rolled directly into its new pavilion within days.

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This particular F/A-18 has a distinguished combat record.

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