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Angefangen hatte er in Phantoms, dann war er zu Tomcats aufgestiegen, hatte seine Staffel und ein Flugzeugträger-Fliegergeschwader kommandiert, war auf der Grundlage einer soliden und ausgezeichneten Laufbahn, in der ihm kein Fehler unterlaufen war, frühzeitig zum Admiral befördert worden.
He'd started in Phantoms and graduated to Tomcats, commanded his squadron, and a carrier air wing, then screened early for flag rank on the basis of a solid and distinguished career during which he'd never put a foot wrong. His next job, if he got it, would be as commander of a carrier battle group, something that had once seemed to him a goal beyond the grasp of Fortune itself.
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