Keywords: 030405-N-9712C-001.The Arabian Gulf (Apr. 5, 2003) -- An SH-60 Seahawk helicopter picks up ordnance from the Military Sealift Command ammunition ship USNS Kiska (T-AE 35) for delivery aboard USS Constellation (CV 64) during a vertical replenishment at sea (VERTREP). Constellation Carrier Strike Force is deployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, 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: Photographer’s Mate Airman John P. Curtis. (RELEASED). |