Caption:
Central Command Area of Responsibility (Apr. 14,2003) -- USS Joint
Venture (HSX-V1) prepares to receive a small boat from the guided
missile destroyer USS Mitscher (DDG 57) during underway
operations. Joint Venture 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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