A view from the aft section lower deck aboard the US Navy (USN) Nimitz Class Aircraft Carrier USS GEORGE WASHINGTON (CVN 73), showing a USN F/A-18E Super Hornet aircraft assigned to the "Red Rippers" of Fighter Attack Squadron (VFA 11) as it approaches to land on the flight deck. The GEORGE WASHINGTON Carrier Strike Group (CGS) is currently underway in the Caribbean Sea participating in the Partnership of the Americas Exercise, a maritime training and readiness deployment of the US Naval Forces with Caribbean and Latin American countries in support of the US Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) objectives for enhanced maritime security
Summary
The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Base: USS George Washington (CVN 73)
Scene Camera Operator: PHAN Rex Nelson, USN
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
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Date
19/04/2006
Source
The U.S. National Archives
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