Eisenhower Launches First Sorties in Support of Operation Enduring Freedom

USS DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER, AT SEA

03.21.2009

Photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Jonathan Snyder 

U.S. Navy           

An HH-60 helicopter assigned to Helicopter Anti-submarine Squadron 3 "Tridents" from Carrier Air Wing 8 looks down on the flight deck of USS Dwight D. Eisenhower. The Eisenhower Carrier Strike Group launched its first sorties in support of Operation Enduring Freedom March 21, bound for the skies over Afghanistan to support coalition ground forces operating on the ground. Eisenhower relieved USS Theodore Roosevelt in the Gulf of Oman as part of a normal rotation of forces and marked the end of the Theodore Roosevelt Strike Group's deployment to the U.S. 5th Fleet area of operations.

• Date Taken: 03.21.2009
• Date Posted: 03.21.2009 05:50
• Photo ID: 158641
• VIRIN: 090321-N-7571S-001
• Resolution: 2100x1394
• Size: 1.48 MB
• Location: USS DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER, AT SEA