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Operation Southern Watch was an air-centric military operation conducted by the United States Department of Defense from August 1992 to March 2003.. United States Central Command's Joint Task Force Southwest Asia (JTF-SWA) [5] had the mission of monitoring and controlling the airspace south of the 32nd Parallel (extended to the 33rd Parallel in 1996) in southern and south-central Iraq during ...
USS Midway CV-41 (Flagship of Battle Force Zulu) USS Bunker Hill CG-52; USS Mobile Bay CG-53; USS Hewitt DD-966; USS Oldendorf DD-972; USS Fife DD-991; USS Curts FFG-38; Unlike the other carriers in the Gulf War, USS Midway couldn't carry the S-3 Viking or the F-14 Tomcat due to her size constraints meaning the ship instead had three F/A-18 ...
While on this deployment, the Death Rattlers transitioned from Operation Southern Watch to Operation Iraqi Freedom conducting sorties into Baghdad on the first night of the war. On 2 May 2005, two F/A-18 C Hornet fighter jets from VMFA-323, BuNo 164721 and BuNo 164732, collided over south-central Iraq, during a sortie from USS Carl Vinson ...
Fifth Fleet, led by Vice Admiral Raymond A. Spruance from aboard his flagship, heavy cruiser USS Indianapolis (CA-35). The ships and troops of Operations Galvanic (landings on Tarawa Atoll) and Kourbash (landings on Makin Atoll) were under direct operational command of Rear Admiral Richmond Kelly Turner aboard old battleship USS Pennsylvania ...
An F/A-18C of VMFA-312 launches from USS Harry S. Truman (CVN-75), in 2010. Carrier Air Wing Three entered the North Persian Gulf and began Operation Southern Watch missions on 3 January 2001. On 20 January, a VMFA-312 jet destroyed an anti-aircraft artillery site, which was threatening coalition aircraft in Southern Iraq.
During the ensuing years, the squadron deployed to the Persian Gulf four times in support of Operation Southern Watch, enforcing a No-Fly Zone over the skies of southern Iraq. In January 1998, VAW-115 and the Independence Battle Group were called upon to participate in various Persian Gulf contingency operations in support of United Nations ...
As part of these deployments, the Carl Vinson carrier battle group participated in Exercise RIMPAC '84, RIMPAC '86, RIMPAC '98, PACEX '89, Exercise Rugged Nautilus, Operation Southern Watch, Operation Desert Strike, Operation Desert Fox, and Operation Iraqi Freedom. [13] From 1989 to 1991, USS Carl Vinson served as the flagship for Carrier ...
VFA-37 again deployed on board USS Harry S. Truman to the Mediterranean Sea and the Indian Ocean from 21 May to 20 December 2010 and from 22 July 2013 to 18 April 2014. [2] In 2016, VFA-37 was reassigned to CVW-8. The wing is assigned to USS George H. W. Bush and deployed to the Mediterranean Sea and the Indian Ocean from 21 January to 21 ...