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Lt. Bruce Lindsay shows a midshipman the controls of a Riverine command boat during a visit to Riverine Squadron 2 on July 10, 2013 at Naval Support Activity Bahrain. The visit was part of a Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps summer training program.

Lt. Bruce Lindsay shows a midshipman the controls of a Riverine command boat during a visit to Riverine Squadron 2 on July 10, 2013 at Naval Support Activity Bahrain. The visit was part of a Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps summer training program. (Bryan Blair/U.S. Navy)

Every year midshipmen from the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md., spend a month of the summer school break in the fleet observing and gaining real world Navy experience.

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