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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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US Coast Guard Captain Jamie Frederick speaks during a press conference on June 20, 2023, about the search efforts for the submersible that went missing. (Joseph Prezioso via Getty Images)

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USS Delaware makes its way down the Thames River and past the City of New London after departing Submarine Base New London in Groton, Connecticut, on November 28, 2022. (John Narewski via DVIDS)