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US Marine Corps (USMC) Sergeant (SGT) Dan Kelsey, a UH-1N Huey helicopter Crew CHIEF, assigned to Marine Light Attack Helicopter Squadron Three Six Nine (HMLA-369), Marine Aircraft Wing Three Six (MAW 36), performs a preflight inspection on his aircraft before departing for a mission at Crow Valley, Philippines, during Exercise BALIKATAN 2004

Marines run on the flight deck of the amphibious assault ship USS GUAM (LPH-9). The GUAM is sailing in formation with other ships of the aircraft carrier USS JOHN F. KENNEDY (CV-67) task force. An AH-1W Sea Cobra is one of the Marine Medium Helicopter Squadron 261 (HMM-261) helicopters staged on the flight deck of the GUAM

US Marine Corps (USMC) Sergeant (SGT) Dan Kelsey, a UH-1N Huey helicopter Crew CHIEF, assigned to Marine Light Attack Helicopter Squadron Three Six Nine (HMLA-369), Marine Aircraft Wing Three Six (MAW 36), performs a preflight inspection on the 7.62 mm M134 Minigun machine gun on his aircraft before departing for a mission at Crow Valley, Philippines, during Exercise BALIKATAN 2004

Aviation Ordnanceman 3rd Class Quentin Bryant, gives a thumbs up that an AGM-88 HARM missile is properly loaded to an F/A-18C Hornet aboard the aircraft carrier USS GEORGE WASHINGTON (CVN 73). GEORGE WASHINGTON is deployed to the Persian Gulf in support of Operation Southern Watch

A crewman checks an AH-1 Sea Cobra helicopter on the flight deck of the amphibious assault ship USS GUADALCANAL (LPH 7) prior to the ship's entry into the Persian Gulf. The helicopter is armed with an AIM-9 Sidewinder missile on the right weapons pylon

US Marine Corps (USMC) Corporal (CPL) Kieth Shaw, a UH-1N Huey helicopter Crew CHIEF, assigned to Marine Light Attack Helicopter Squadron Three Six Nine (HMLA-369), Marine Aircraft Wing Three Six (MAW 36), performs general maintenance on his aircraft before departing for a mission at Crow Valley, Philippines, during Exercise BALIKATAN 2004

A pilot climbs into an F/A-18C Hornet attached to Marine Fighter Attack Squadron Two Five One (VMFA-251) aboard the aircraft carrier USS GEORGE WASHINGTON (CVN 73). GEORGE WASHINGTON and VMFA 251 are deployed to the Persian Gulf in support of Operation Southern Watch

LCPL Leander Pickens (front), and CPL Tom Cimminelli, load an AIM-9 Sidewinder air-to-air missile onto an F/A-18C Hornet during sustained flight operations in the Persian Gulf. USS GEORGE WASHINGTON is conducting operations in the Persian Gulf in support Operation Southern Watch

US Navy Lieutenant Commander Bryan Kust sits in a F/A 18 Hornet flight simulator aboard the Forrestal Class Aircraft Carrier, USS INDEPENDENCE (CV 62). The USS INDEPENDENCE is forward deployed to the Persian Gulf in support of Operation Southern Watch

Marine Corps CPT Robert Kimbrell attached to Helicopter Medium Squadron Two Six Three (HMM-263) of the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) checks his AH-1 Cobra helicopter before flight operations from the amphibious assault ship USS GUAM (LPH 9). GUAM is deployed to the Persian Gulf in support of Operation Southern Watch

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Subject Operation/Series: SOUTHERN WATCH

Base: USS Guam (LPH 9)

Scene Camera Operator: PHAN Rich Williams, USN

Release Status: Released to Public

Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

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Crewmen cover a Helicopter Mine Countermeasures Squadron 14 (HM-14) RH-53D Sea Stallion helicopter with camouflage netting aboard the amphibious assault ship USS GUADALCANAL (LPH 7)

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US Navy Lieutenant Junior Grade Tara "Judy" Golden monitors a surveillance system inside an E-2C Hawkeye aircraft from Carrier Airborne Early Warning Squadron One two Six (VAW-126) while patrolling the skies of the Persian Gulf on the last day of Operation SOUTHERN WATCH. The Seahawks are embarked on board USS HARRY S. TRUMAN (CVN 75)

US Army (USA) Captain (CPT) Joseph Reed, assigned to Headquarters (HQ), 1ST Battalion, 119th Field Artillery (1-119th FA), Michigan Army National Guard (MIARNG), takes part in a prayer during a Welcome Home Ceremony after returning home at the armory in Lansing, Michigan (MI), following a one year tour of duty in Iraq. (A3596)

A CH-46 Sea Knight helicopter is prepared for flight operations aboard the amphibious assault ship USS IWO JIMA (LPH 2) during the multinational joint service Exercise BRIGHT STAR '85

Captain (CAPT) Thad Darger, an F-117 Nighthawk pilot assigned to the 8th Fighter Squadron (FS), 49th Fighter Wing (FW), Holloman Air Force Base (AFB), New Mexico, puts on his G-suit in preparation for a mission at Ahmed Al Jaber Air Base, Kuwait, in support of Operation SOUTHERN WATCH 1998

UH-60 Black Hawk (Blackhawk) and AH-1 Cobra helicopters are loaded aboard the rapid-response vehicle cargo ship USNS CAPELLA (T-AKR-293) for transportation back to Germany in the aftermath of Operations Desert Shield/Desert Storm. The helicopters are encased in protective plastic for shipping

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