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- Join twenty-five Marines as they take a grueling four-week training class at the Mountain Warfare Training School in Bridgeport, California, one of the toughest survival schools on the planet.
- The Arleigh Burke destroyer is America's most modern surface warship. This sleek, 500-foot long vessel bristles with state-of-the-art weapons and technology. Armed with long-range cruise missiles, 5-inch main guns, torpedoes and high-speed cannons, this extremely fast and stealthy warship will be the mainstay of the Navy's forward projection of force well into the 21st century. At the Bath Iron Works in Maine, follow the construction of one of these impressive vessels from its keel laying to its initial slide into the Kennebec River.
- Marines fresh out of boot camp go through nine weeks of intensive training to learn how to drive, load, shoot, and maintain the M1A1 main battle tank.
- Take a comprehensive, insider's look at the aircraft carriers of today's United States Navy. Marvel as a mind-boggling array of workers, materials and technologies combine to create an aircraft carrier right before your eyes. Exclusive footage captures the building of the USS Reagan - from the moment the ship is conceived to its delivery to a jubilant Navy crew. Witness the world's largest crane gently nudging massive modular units into place, technicians snaking miles of cables through the bowels of ships, weapons experts installing the latest firepower and much more. Then experience the challenge and excitement of living on one these floating behemoths as you sail aboard the Reagan's sister ship, the USS Truman.
- The U.S.S. Virginia is the first of thirty planned attack submarines designed after the Cold War. This program reviews the designs of the United States' previous attack submarines and the new post-Cold War threats and missions that make the new design necessary. Then we follow the Virginia on its sea trials leading up to its commissioning ceremony into the U.S. Navy fleet.
- Explore both the military and human dimensions of America's newest aircraft carrier, the USS Ronald Reagan, as she makes her journey from the shipyard where she was built to her new home port. It is a trip that takes the ship and her crew down the eastern coast of the Americas, through the majestic Straits of Magellan and then northward to finally arrive in San Diego, California after 58 days at sea. Follow the course of this voyage and meet the crew, see the technology and witness the various operations that make a Nimitz Class carrier "tick."
- A battalion of 700 US Marines learn how to navigate and fight in the rocky terrain of the Sierra Nevada mountains.