The USS Kitty Hawk (CV 63) plows through the waters of the Pacific Ocean as it makes its approach to the oiler USNS Yukon (T-AO 202) during a replenishment-at-sea evolution on Aug. 9, 2004. The Kitty Hawk is participating in a scheduled deployment and supporting Summer Pulse 2004, a Navy exercise where seven aircraft carrier strike groups will learn new ways of operating, training, manning and maintaining their fleet.

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