Half a dozen F-18 fast jets streak across the sky, while below, others are flung off the top of the sprawling flight deck by steam catapult.
And In the midst of this display of naval power sits Rear Admiral Nora Tyson, the first woman to command a US carrier strike group. Adm Tyson is in charge of 75 jets, helicopters and other aircraft – together worth $45bn – plus a cluster of cruisers and destroyers, and nearly 10,000 men and women.
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