An aircraft handler directs a CV-22 Osprey, attached to the “Black Birds” of 8th Special Operation Squadron, U.S. Air Force Special Operations Command, during touch-and-goes on the flight deck of the amphibious assault ship USS Bataan (LHD 5).

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