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In this Thursday, Sept. 10, 2015 photo, plane directors, wearing yellow jerseys, oversee the takeoff of a U.S. Marine fighter jet aircraft aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt aircraft carrier. Pilots onboard have flown missions into both Iraq and Syria, part of the over 6,800 airstrikes carried out since August 2014. Some 20 percent of all coalition strikes come from aircraft launched from the nuclear-powered Roosevelt.(AP/Marko Drobnjakovic)