040321-N-5821P-001 7th Fleet Area of Responsibility (AOR) Mar. 21, 2004 - Aviation BoatswainÕs Mate Airman Billy Kennedy clears one of four catapults on the shipÕ flight deck of its holdback bar, as the flight deck makes its transition from launch mode to recovery mode aboard the aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk (CV 63). Kitty Hawk is currently underway in the 7th Fleet area of responsibility (AOR), and is the NavyÕs only permanently forward-deployed aircraft carrier, operating from Yokosuka, Japan. Navy photo by PhotographerÕs Mate 3rd Class Jason T. Poplin. (RELEASED) US Navy 040321


040321-N-5821P-001 7th Fleet Area of Responsibility (AOR) Mar. 21, 2004 - Aviation BoatswainÕs Mate Airman Billy Kennedy clears one of four catapults on the shipÕ flight deck of its holdback bar, as the flight deck makes its transition from launch mode to recovery mode aboard the aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk (CV 63). Kitty Hawk is currently underway in the 7th Fleet area of responsibility (AOR), and is the NavyÕs only permanently forward-deployed aircraft carrier, operating from Yokosuka, Japan. Navy photo by PhotographerÕs Mate 3rd Class Jason T. Poplin. (RELEASED) US Navy 040321-N-5821P-001 Aviation Boatswain%%5Ersquo,s Mate Airman Billy Kennedy clears one of four catapults on the ship%%5Ersquo, flight deck of its holdback bar, as the flight deck makes its transition from launch mode to recove


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