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Petty Officer 1st Class Leslie Cleaver directs the aircrew in the flight station to begin engine starts on a U.S. Navy P-3C Orion aircraft at Naval Air Station, Whidbey Island, Wash., on Jan. 26, 1996.  The Orion is a land-based, long range, anti-submarine warfare patrol and surface surveillance aircraft.  It has advanced submarine detection sensors such as directional frequency and ranging sonobouys and magnetic anomaly detection equipment.  Cleaver, from Westminister, Colo., is a Navy Parachute Rigger.  The Orion belongs to Patrol Squadron 46.  DoD photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class C.T. Yebba, U.S. Navy.

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US Navy
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P-3
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