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29
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; fictional weapon.

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30
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31
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32
the $8.6 billion tab to relocate the Marines:
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34 “
closed rebreather unit”:
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35
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36
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37
roll-on, roll-off ship:
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38
to still have an outdoor wedding:
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39
electric V1000 drone:
Fictional drone.

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40
a symbolic act of bravery:
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41
located on the Mokapu Peninsula:
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42
over forty thousand pounds of thrust:
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43
Moana Surfrider hotel:
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44
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45
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46
firing an M249 machine gun:
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47
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48
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49
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50
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51
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52
the MV-22's massive engine:
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53
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54
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55
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57
Chinese-made Z-10 attack helicopter:
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58
A Type 93A submarine:
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59
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George H. W. Bush: “USS
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60
USS
John Warner: Eric Durie, “Meet SSN 785—the Navy's 12th
Virginia
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61 “
releasing Mark Fifty-Four”:
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62
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63 “
Update from the
Stockdale
's ATHENA”:
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,” U.S. Navy, accessed August 19, 2014,
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AN/ASQ-239 Barracuda system:
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not even a tiny percentage could be tested:
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the
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modafinil for endurance:
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Part 3

1
so many boys and so few girls:
Louisa Lim, “China Demographic Crisis: Too Many Boys, Elderly,” NPR.org, April 14, 2008, accessed August 19, 2014,
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=89572563
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2
Duke's:
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3
what had happened to the Japanese Americans:
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http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/japanese-relocation/
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4 “
major cause of degradation”:
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Empfasis,
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5
officer's quarters in Fort Mason:
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6
Mark VI patrol boats:
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National Defense,
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http://www.nationaldefensemagazine.org/archive/2014/November/Pages/NavyReceivesFirstNewPatrolBoat.aspx
.

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7 “
they sunk the
Ford”: Tom Moore, “CVN-78: A True Leap Ahead for the Navy and Naval Aviation,”
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(blog), U.S. Navy, July 9, 2013, accessed August 19, 2014,
http://navylive.dodlive.mil/2013/07/09/cvn-78-a-true-leap-ahead-for-the-navy-and-naval-aviation/
.

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8 “
and the
Vinson”: “USS
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(CVN-70),” U.S. Navy, accessed August 19, 2014,
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9 “
Only the boomers”:
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http://www.navy.mil/navydata/fact_display.asp?cid=4100&tid=200&ct=4
.

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10 “
fight this war as a contractor”:
Peter W. Singer,
Corporate Warriors
(Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2003).