Archive photo of the day
Target practice on USS Bataan, 2001
Stars and Stripes
April 18, 2024
(Tim Flack/Stars and Stripes)
Somewhere in the Arabian Sea, Nov. 30, 2001: Marines from the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit (Special Operations Capable) fire their weapons off the end of the USS Bataan. The Marines were busy staying prepared for possible orders into Afghanistan.