In my military career, I was frequently deployed on the U.S. Navy鈥檚 massive nuclear-powered aircraft carriers into combat and on more routine peacetime missions.
I embarked in the USS Abraham Lincoln as a commodore in the late 1990s, and I sailed around South America in the USS Eisenhower as a four-star admiral in command of US Southern Command in 2009. These are fearsome machines of war, apex predators at sea with significant land-attack powers as well.
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