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Here is the way U.S. carriers on deployment celebrate New Year’s Eve.
Top image shows an F/A-18E Super Hornet from the VFA-81 Sunliners making the final launch of 2014 from the flight deck of aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70) as the U.S. nuclear-powered aircraft carrier conducts flight operations in the U.S. 5th Fleet area of responsibility supporting Operation Inherent Resolve over Iraq and Syria.
Image credit: U.S. Navy