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An aircraft sits on the USS George H.W. Bush.

(Chris Church/Stars and Stripes)

Persian Gulf, April 20, 2017: An F/A-18 Super Hornet sits on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush, deployed to the Persian Gulf supporting maritime security operations and the coalition to defeat the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria.

Read the 2017 article and see additional images of the operations here.

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