From Navy Public Affairs
ARABIAN GULF (NNS) -- Two U.S. Navy F/A-18 Super Hornets
assigned to Carrier Air Wing 8 embarked on USS George H. W. Bush (CVN 77)
strucks Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant targets near Erbil, Iraq, Aug. 8.
Bush is operating in the Arabian Gulf on a scheduled
deployment to U.S. 5th Fleet.
The F/A-18s dropped 500 pound laser-guided bombs against
ISIL artillery targets. Carrier Air Wing 8 aircraft assigned to the Bush
carrier strike group include the "Golden Warriors" of Strike Fighter
Squadron (VFA) 87 (F/A-18); "Valions" of VFA-15 (F/A-18);
"Fighting Black Lions" of VFA-213 (F/A-18E/F); "Tomcatters"
of VFA-31 (F/A-18E); "Bear Aces" of Airborne Early Warning Squadron
(VAW) 124 (E-2C Hawkeye); "Garudas" of Electronic Attack Squadron
(VAQ) 134 (EA-18G); "Tridents" of Helicopter Sea
Combat Squadron (HSC) 9 (MH-60S); "Rawhides" of Fleet Logistics
Support Squadron (VRC) 40 (C-2A); and the "Spartans" of Helicopter
Maritime Strike Squadron (HSM) 70 (SH-60B/MH-60R).
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