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Robin Warren

March 15, 2007 10:05AM

On US Navy ships the most, most important guy was the one with the Zippo lighter. It was used to light the torch to set off the bunker oil in the boiler. Now, it's the guy with the ignition key. A lot of ships today are using GE jet type engines and others are Nukes.

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