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A Strike Fighter Squadron 87 (VFA-87) F/A-18A Hornet aircraft takes to the air as it is launched from the flight deck of the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS THEODORE ROOSEVELT (CVN-71). The ROOSEVELT is on station in the eastern Mediterranean in support of Operation Provide Comfort, a multinational effort to aid Kurdish refugees in southern Turkey and northern Iraq

A Strike Fighter Squadron 87 (VFA-87) F/A-18A Hornet aircraft takes to the air as it is launched from the flight deck of the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS THEODORE ROOSEVELT (CVN-71). The ROOSEVELT is on station in the eastern Mediterranean in support of Operation Provide Comfort, a multinational effort to aid Kurdish refugees in southern Turkey and northern Iraq

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Subject Operation/Series: PROVIDE COMFORT

Country: Mediterranean Sea(MED)

Scene Camera Operator: PHC Denis Keske

Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

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28/04/1991

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