US Navy 021024-N-7564P-013 SECNAV conducts interview aboard USS Tarawa

At sea aboard USS Tarawa (LHA 1) Oct. 24, 2002 -- Secretary of the Navy, Gordon R. England (right with ball cap) conducts an interview with a Navy/Marine Corps News journalist aboard the amphibious assault ship while visiting off the coast of California. The Secretary told the men and women that President Bush and the American people are proud of them and appreciated the hard work they are doing in defense of Freedom. U.S. Navy photo by Chief Journalist William Polson. (RELEASED)