Lieutenant Commander Chris "Ward" Schenck keeps an eye on surrounding S-3 Vikings from Carrier-Based Antisubmarine Squadron Twenty-Two (VS-22), "Checkmates", while flying in formation with them over the flight deck of USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75) during a training exercise. TRUMAN is on station in the Arabian Gulf in support of Operation SOUTHERN WATCH. SOUTHERN WATCH establishes a southern no fly zone over Iraq and extends to the borders to just south of Baghdad, capital city of Iraq
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The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Subject Operation/Series: SOUTHERN WATCH
Country: Unknown
Scene Camera Operator: PHAN Christopoher B. Stoltz, USN
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
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Date
11/03/2001
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The U.S. National Archives
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