Go Navy!: These Are The Navy Jets That Just Started Striking The Islamic State

Thomas Gibbons-Neff at the Washington Post offers a look at the U.S. Navy aircraft off the aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman that are attacking the Islamic State.

You can read the piece and view the photos of the aircraft via the below link:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2015/12/30/these-are-the-navy-jets-that-just-started-striking-the-islamic-state/

Note: In the U.S. Navy photo above by Mass Communications Specialist 2nd Class B.B. Petrovski an F/A-18F Super Hornet assigned to the Jolly Rogers of Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 103 launches from the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75). The Harry S. Truman Carrier Strike Group is deployed in support of Operation Inherent Resolve, maritime security operations, and theater security cooperation efforts in the U.S. 5th Fleet area of responsibility.