Wartime service: During Operation Desert Storm, Keating was deputy commander, Carrier Air Wing 17, participating in combat operations in from the aircraft carrier USS Saratoga.

CNN: Specials

DC, the air wing of an aircraft carrier could attack 200 targets in one day in 1991.

ECONOMIST: Military technology

In addition, they have constituted an air wing that is practicing landings on a carrier-shaped strip, and are reported to be building a new carrier in secret.

FORBES: Where are the Carriers?

On the day I was aboard, rookie pilots (the Abraham Lincoln's regular air wing was on land) took turns trying to qualify for landing on a carrier.

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