Caption:
Central Command Area of Operation (Mar. 21, 2003) -- The guided missile
destroyer USS Donald Cook (DDG 75) underway. Donald Cook was the
first surface combatant to fire Tomahawk Land Attack Missiles (TLAM) in
the liberation of Iraq. Donald Cook is homeported in Norfolk,
Va., and is conducting combat missions in support of Operation Iraqi
Freedom. Operation Iraqi Freedom is the multinational 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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