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Caption:
PHILIPPINE SEA (May 8, 2008) -- The guided-missile destroyer USS Curtis
Wilbur (DDG 54) moves behind the aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk (CV
63) to act as plane guard. The plane guard, usually a frigate or
destroyer, would recover aircrew from crashed a plane or helicopter.
Kitty Hawk and Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 5 are on a spring deployment --
the ship's last before being replaced by USS George Washington (CVN 73)
as the Navy's only forward-deployed aircraft carrier. Kitty Hawk
operates from Fleet Activities Yokosuka, Japan. U.S. Navy photo by Mass
Communication Specialist Seaman Apprentice Anthony R.
Martinez (RELEASED)
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