AERIAL PATROL DUTY — An MH-60R Strikehawk helicopter lifts off from the guided missile destroyer USS Mason to conduct an aerial security patrol over the central Persian Gulf, Jan. 3, 2005. The Mason is on her first deployment to the Persian Gulf as part of the USS Harry S. Truman Carrier Strike Group supporting coalition efforts in the Global War on Terrorism. U.S. Navy photo by Seaman Joseph Ebalo
