Aerial starboard bow view showing the US Navy (USN) Arleigh Burke Class (Flight II) Guided Missile Destroyer (Aegis), USS BULKELEY (DDG 84) (foreground left), cruising alongside the Military Sealift Command (MSC) Henry J. Kaiser Class, Oiler, USNS TIPPECANOE (T-AO 199), in order to conduct Replenishment At Sea (RAS) operations, while underway in the Arabian Sea, during a regularly scheduled deployment in support of Operation IRAQI FREEDOM. The USN Spruance Class Destroyer USS CUSHING (DD 985) is visible in the background
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Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM
Country: Arabian Sea
Scene Camera Operator: PH1 Brien Aho, USN
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
Iraq War aka Operation IRAQI FREEDOM was the 2003 invasion of Iraq, led by U.S. Army General Tommy Franks, under the code-name "Operation Iraqi Freedom". 248,000 soldiers from the United States, 45,000 British soldiers, 2,000 Australian soldiers and 194 Polish soldiers from Special Forces unit GROM sent to Kuwait for the invasion. The invasion force was also supported by Iraqi Kurdish militia troops, estimated to number upwards of 70,000.
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Date
18/06/2004
Source
The U.S. National Archives
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