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The sad state of the U.S. Navy
OPINION: Growing up in the 1950s and early 1960s near Willow Grove Naval Air Station, I was often exposed to the sights and sounds of military aircraft flying overhead, and I often dreamed about how awesome it would be to be a naval aviator. My father …