Petty Officer First Class Jeffery Serrano transports two MK-83 1,000 pound bombs from a weapons elevator to the flight deck of the USS George Washington (CVN 73) as the ship steams in the Persian Gulf on , 1998. The Washington battle group is operating in the Persian Gulf in support of Operation Southern Watch which is the and coalition enforcement of the no-fly-zone over Southern Iraq. Serrano, from Jacksonville , Fla., is a Navy aviation ordnanceman.

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