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The US Navy ballistic missile submarine Tennessee and a British Royal Navy nuclear submarine conduct bilateral training. (Aaron Abbott via US Navy)

Vice Adm. Lisa Franchetti, center foreground, is the Biden administration's nominee for chief of naval operations. (MCC America A. Henry via US Navy)

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US Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Jesse Rushing installs a 5G antenna in preparation for a 5G network demonstration at MCAGCC in Twentynine Palms, California, on August 15, 2022. (Ryan Kennelly via DVIDS)

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A Blue Water Logistic Unmanned Areal System on the flight deck of the fleet replenishment oiler USNS Patuxent while the ship was underway in the Atlantic Ocean on June 10, 2023. (John Bruening via DVIDS)

The guided-missile destroyer USS Barry conducts routine underway operations in the South China Sea on November 21, 2020. (Molly Crawford via DVIDS)

Amid intensifying threats military from China, Taiwanese soldiers carrying artillery to tanks during the two-day live-fire drill in Pingtung, Taiwan, on September 7, 2022. (Photo by Ceng Shou Yi/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Common Mission Control Center at Beale Air Force Base in California on March 2021. (US Air Force Photo)

The Los Angeles-class fast-attack submarine USS Newport News returned home to Submarine Base New London in Groton, Connecticut, on January 3, 2023. ( John Narewski via DVIDS)

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