At missions end, US Navy (USN) Patrol Squadron 8 (VP-8), Fighting Tigers, Combat Air Crew 2(CAC-2) members walk away from their P-3C Orion, heading for a debrief. The Fighting Tigers are home ported at Naval Air Station (NAS) Brunswick, Maine, and currently deployed to the Mediterranean theater with detachments at Naval Air Station Sigonella, Sicily and Naval Support Activity Souda Bay. The P-3C is a land-based, long-range, anti-submarine warfare (ASW) patrol aircraft. It has advanced submarine detection sensors and can carry a mixed payload of weapons internally and on wing pylons
Summary
The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Base: Souda Harbor
State: Crete
Country: Greece (GRC)
Scene Camera Operator: Paul Farley, USN, CIV
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
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Date
14/03/2003
Location
Source
The U.S. National Archives
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