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Down-time on the USS ENTERPRISE (CVN 65), between waves of air strikes against Iraq, is spent cleaning, and maintaining aircraft, in preparation of the next flight operations event. ENTERPRISE is in the Persian Gulf in support of Operation DESERT FOX. The DESERT FOX goal is to degrade Saddam Hussein's ability to make and to use weapons of mass destruction. F/A-18 Hornet has AIM-9M Sidewinder air to air missiles on it's wing tips
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Subject Operation/Series: DESERT FOX
Base: Uss Enterprise (CVN 65)
Scene Camera Operator: PH3 Nicholas H. Griseto
Release Status: Released to Public
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Date
19/12/1998
Source
The U.S. National Archives
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