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Photo Credit: US Navy
Photographer's Mate 3rd Class (PH3) Jason Stiles double checks the aperture and lens angle on an F-14 Tomcat mounted (TARPS) digital camera on board the conventional aircraft carrier USS INDEPENDENCE (CV 62). The INDEPENDENCE is forward deployed to the Persian Gulf in support of Operation SOUTHERN WATCH, 12 April 1998. (Photo: US Navy)
An F-14D Tomcat assigned to the "Bounty Hunters" of Fighter Squadron Two (VF-2), took place in over fifty aerial combat bomb drops during Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) and is painted with a bomb stencil to signify each bomb dropped. U.S. Navy photo by Photographer's Mate 2nd Class Daniel J. McLain