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46Geosynchronous Space Situational Awareness: Amy Butler, “USAF Chief Outs Classified Spy Sat Program,” Aviation Week and Space Technology, February 21, 2012, accessed August 19, 2014, http://aviationweek.com/defense/usaf-space-chief-outs-classified-spy-sat-program.
47Ultra High Frequency Follow-On: “Ultra High Frequency Follow-On (UFO),” Program Executive Office Space Systems, U.S. Navy, accessed August 19, 2014, http://www.public.navy.mil/spawar/PEOSpaceSystems/ProductsServices/Pages/UHFGraphics.aspx.
48sipped his awful coffee: “Don’t Wash That Coffee Mug,” Naval Historical Foundation, November 25, 2013, accessed August 19, 2014, http://www.navyhistory.org/2013/11/dont-wash-that-coffee-mug/.
49“Deploy REMUS”: “Autonomous Underwater Vehicle — Remus 100,” Kongsberg Maritime, accessed August 17, 2014, http://www.km.kongsberg.com/ks/web/nokbg0240.nsf/AllWeb/D241A2C835DF40B0C12574AB003EA6AB?OpenDocument.
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50submitted the required DNA: Axe, “This Scientist Wants Tomorrow’s Troops.”
51They had said Tokyo was big: Visible Earth catalog, “Tokyo at Night,” NASA, accessed August 17, 2014, http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view.php?id=8683.
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58Joint Chiefs and the president: Marine Corps order 3504.2, June 8, 2007, http://www.mcieast.marines.mil/Portals/33/Documents/Adjutant/SAPR_MCO%203504.2%20OPREP%203%20Reporting[1].pdf.
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62electric V1000 drone: Fictional drone.
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75“Update from the Stockdale’s ATHENA”: “USS Stockdale,” U.S. Navy, accessed August 19, 2014, http://www.public.navy.mil/surfor/ddg106/Pages/WelcomeAboard.aspx#.U_Qx5Uj6L6A.
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85Duke’s Bar: “Duke’s Waikiki,” TS Restaurants, accessed August 19, 2014, http://www.dukeswaikiki.com/.
88what had happened to the Japanese Americans: “Teaching with Documents: Documents and Photographs Related to Japanese Relocation During World War II,” National Archives, accessed August 19, 2014, http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/japanese-relocation/.
89“major cause of degradation”: Barry Thaler, “Affordable Switches for Pulsed Power Systems,” Empfasis, January 2007, accessed August 19, 2014, http://www.empf.org/empfasis/2007/Jan07/january%202007%20empfasis.pdf.
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94Mark VI patrol boats: Valerie Insinna, “Navy Receives First New Patrol Boat,” National Defense, November 2014, accessed October 21, 2014, http://www.nationaldefensemagazine.org/archive/2014/November/Pages/NavyReceivesFirstNewPatrolBoat.aspx.
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95“and the Vinson”: “USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70),” U.S. Navy, accessed August 19, 2014, http://www.cvn70.navy.mil/.
95“Only the boomers”: “Fleet Ballistic Missile Submarines — SSBN,” U.S. Navy, August 14, 2014, accessed August 19, 2014, http://www.navy.mil/navydata/fact_display.asp?cid=4100&tid=200&ct=4.
97“fight this war as a contractor”: Peter W. Singer, Corporate Warriors (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2003).
97“I live in lonely desolation”: Aleksandr Pushkin, “I Have Outlasted All Desire,” 1821.
101wartime orphans “the Lost Boys”: “The Lost Boys of Sudan,” International Rescue Committee, accessed August 19, 2014, http://www.rescue.org/lost-boys-sudan.
101“principal deputy undersecretary of defense”: “ACQWeb: Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics,” Department of Defense, accessed August 19, 2014, http://www.acq.osd.mil/.
102“either of the Big Two firms”: Sandra Irwin, “Consolidation of Top Pentagon Contractors Only a Matter of Time,” National Defense, April 27, 2014, accessed August 19, 2014, http://www.nationaldefensemagazine.org/blog/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?List=7c996cd7-cbb4-4018-baf8-8825eada7aa2&ID=1489.
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107fifty times less visible to radar: Clay Dillow, “The Most Technologically Advanced Warship Ever Built,” Popular Science, October 16, 2012, accessed August 20, 2014, http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2012-08/ocean-power.
107wave-piercing tumblehome hull: Jim Downey, “Presentation by DDG 1000 Program Manager to the American Society of Naval Engineers (ASNE): DDG 1000,” American Society of Naval Engineers, April 17, 2013, accessed August 20, 2014, https://www.navalengineers.org/flagship/meetings/Documents/Downey_DDG1000_4-17-13.pdf.
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110four IEDs detonate
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112a train of iRobot Majordomos: “Robots for Defense and Security,” iRobot, accessed August 20, 2014, http://www.irobot.com/us/learn/defense.aspx; fictional robot.
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121“the vertical launch cells”: Kris Osborn, “Navy Upgrades Vertical Launch Systems,” DefenseTech.org, July 2, 2014, accessed August 20, 2014, http://defensetech.org/2014/07/02/navy-upgrades-vertical-launch-systems/.
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