Archive photo of the day
Ordnance, 2003
Stars and Stripes
June 7, 2025
(Kendra Helmer/Stars and Stripes)
Aboard USS Kitty Hawk, Mar. 20, 2003: Aviation ordnancemen load a precision-guided bomb on an F/A-18 Hornet on the USS Kitty Hawk. Carrier Air Wing 5 flew 35 daytime sorties and 56 nighttime sorties, 42 of which were strike sorties on Iraq.