Aboard The USS John C. Stennis Nuclear-Powered Supercarrier

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Aboard the USS John C Stennis (CNN)With a deafening roar of jet engines and an explosion of steam, an F-18 Super Hornet catapults off the deck of the aircraft carrier, and veers up into the sky. Seconds later, another fighter jet shoots out down a parallel runway.

The aircraft carrier USS John C Stennis leads a strike group of approximately 8,400 pilots and sailors, three destroyers, a tanker ship as well as dozens of fighter jets, reconnaissance planes and helicopters.

At a time of great tension on the divided mainland, they are here to train with the South Korean military in choppy, freezing waters to the east of the Korean Peninsula.

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WNU Editor: The US Navy is showing off the flag.