US Navy aircraft flies over the Euphrates River in southern Iraq US Navy Photograph by LCDR Bill Blacker

Honor guards aboard the U.S.S. Kitty Hawk aircraft carrier parade the colors during a remembrance ceremony for U.S. Navy Lieutenant Thomas Mullen Adams April 10, 2003. Lieutenant Adams, 27, who was flying for the Royal Navy under a Personnel Exchange Program with the U.S. Navy, died in a crash of two British helicopters operating in the Arabian Gulf in support of Operation 'Iraqi Freedom' late on March 22, 2003.

Marine Lance Corporal  stands watch at the coffin of Marine Capt. Ryan Beaupre  April 2, 2003 during a visitation service in Beaupre's home town of St. Anne, Ill.

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Flight deck director takes a break by leaning against 500 pound bomb, attached to airplane, aboard USS Kitty Hawk

"Well Done" 
USS Abraham Lincoln heads home!
(just kidding)

Sailor Christopher McAnney, holding a rose for his wife Alicia as his sons look on after the aircraft carrier the USS Constellation returned to its homeport at North Island Naval Station in Coronado, Calif., Monday, June 2, 2003. The ship was deployed for seven months and participated in Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom. This is the last cruise of the "Connie."