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Caption:
Central Command Area of Responsibility (May 20, 2003) -- A flight deck
handler prepares an E-2C Hawkeye assigned to the "Wallbangers" of
Carrier Airborne Early Warning Squadron One Seventeen (VAW-117) to
launch at the start of evening flight operations aboard USS Nimitz (CVN
68). The Nimitz Carrier Strike Force and Carrier Air Wing Eleven
(CVW-11) are currently deployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom,
the multi-national coalition effort to liberate the Iraqi people,
eliminate Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, and end the regime of
Saddam Hussein. U.S. Navy photo by Airman Angel G.
Hilbrands. (RELEASED)
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