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An American flag flies from a crane as a construction worker helps build a mixed-use apartment complex on January 25, 2024, in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)

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An F/A-18F Super Hornet fighter jet, attached to the "Fighting Swordsmen" of Strike Fighter Squadron 32, takes off from the flight deck aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69) on July 10, 2023, in the Atlantic Ocean. (DVIDS)

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A US Air Force F-35A Lightning II refuels during exercise Mobility Guardian 23 on July 18, 2023, over the Pacific Ocean. (US Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Christian Sullivan)

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The Rubymar cargo ship sinking off the coast of Yemen, damaged in a missile strike by the Iran-backed Houthi rebels on February 25, 2024. (AFP via Getty Images)

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