Moving a Torpedo, Carefully
| published July 10, 2015 |
By Thursday Review staff
U.S. Navy sailors push a torpedo back into its assigned tube immediately after completing maintenance and routine checks. In this photo, sonar tech 2nd class Kenneth Deguzman and gunner’s mate 1st class Mike Coy move the ordnance after it has been inspected aboard the USS Forrest Sherman, a guided missile destroyer currently deployed in the waters of the Middle East, and assigned to support Operation Inherent Resolve, which includes airstrikes and surveillance missions over ISIS-controlled areas in Syria and Iraq.
The U.S. led air campaign has halted or blunted much of the Islamic State’s military advances, but has done little—according to critics—to roll back territory already gained by ISIS. The United States and some of its allies are attempting to retrain the Iraqi army for full combat effectiveness against ISIS on the battlefield in northern Iraq, and U.S. military advisors and officers are also training rebel groups and anti-ISIS militants in Jordan and Syria for their own offensives against ISIS.
This U.S. Navy photo was taken by mass communications specialist Anthony N. Hilkowski.
Related Thursday Review articles:
U.S. to Send More Troops to Iraq; Thursday Review staff; Thursday Review; June 10, 2015.
Pre-Flight Inspection; Thursday Review staff; Thursday Review; March 17, 2015.