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Whidbey Island Naval Air Station lay two-thirds of the way from their office at Tacoma Narrows Airport to her house on Spieden Island. It was the primary Navy air base in the Pacific Northwest. Its permanently stationed squadrons specialized in electronic surveillance and search-and-rescue. Also, whenever an aircraft carrier was brought into the naval port in Everett, all of the deck aircraft were flown here as well.
They also had a separate field set up for practicing carrier launches complete with catapults and arresting wires that Miranda had always wanted to try. When she’d inquired, they said that she had to be a naval aviator. But now that she was doing so much military work, the training might prove useful.
As soon as she landed, an armed escort arrived complete with bomb snif
