Caption:
Central Command Area of Responsibility (Apr. 14,2003) -- Personnel
assigned to Deck Department aboard the guided missile destroyer USS
Mitscher (DDG 57) conduct a small boat transfer with USS Joint Venture
(HSX-V1). Mitscher is one of the many warships in the Central
Command's area of responsibility supporting Operation Iraqi
Freedom. Operation Iraqi Freedom is 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 Chief Journalist Alan J. Baribeau. (RELEASED)
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