Fire Controlman 3rd Class Dylan Paige hand cranks a RIM-7 NATO "Sea Sparrow" missile into the launcher during a missile upload aboard USS HARRY S. TRUMAN (CVN 75). TRUMAN is on a scheduled six-month deployment to the Mediterranean Sea and Arabian Gulf in support of Operation SOUTHERN WATCH. SOUTHERN WATCH enforces the United Nations Security Council Resolution 688 that establishes a no-fly zone over Southern Iraq below the 32nd parallel
Summary
The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Subject Operation/Series: Operation SOUTHERN WATCH
Base: Uss Harry S. Truman (CVN 75)
Scene Camera Operator: PH3 Jesi Werling, USN
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
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Date
02/12/2000
Location
Source
The U.S. National Archives
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