Archive photo of the day
Short pause, 2003
Stars and Stripes
June 23, 2025
(Kendra Helmer)
A flight deck worker rests on the nose of a fighter jet in between takeoffs Thursday, March 20, 2003 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. The air wing dropped 37 bombs Thursday.