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Explosive Ordnance Disposal 1st Class Christopher Courtney assigned to Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile Unit Six (EODMU-6), Det. 16 assists his team members during Special Purpose Insertion Extraction (SPIE) training from an SH-60 Seahawk helicopter. The Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN-69) shown below the helicopter was launched on this day 50 years ago.

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This narrated animated video by NASA shows the accumulated change in the elevation of the Greenland ice sheet between 2003 and 2012.
The coastal areas of the ice sheet lost far more height, or "thinned", compared to the more inland regions.

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