Keywords: US Navy 080720-N-7571S-010 Chief Warrant Officer 3 Patrick Halinski gives control to a shooter launching a French F-2 Rafale during combined French and American carrier qualifications aboard the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Ro.jpg en ATLANTIC OCEAN July 20 2008 Chief Warrant Officer 3 Patrick Halinski gives control to a shooter launching a French F-2 Rafale during combined French and American carrier qualifications aboard the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt CVN 71 This event marks the first integrated U S and French carrier qualifications aboard a U S aircraft carrier The Theodore Roosevelt Carrier Strike Group is participating in Joint Task Force Exercise Operation Brimstone off the Atlantic coast until the end of July U S Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Jonathan Snyder/Released 2008-07-20 080720-N-7571S-010 Navy http //www navy mil/view_image asp id 61686 U S Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Jonathan Snyder PD-USGov-Military-Navy USS Theodore Roosevelt CVN-71 flight deck Operation Brimstone Pointing right 17 aircraft Photographs by Jonathan Snyder French Navy overall gray aircraft camouflage Aircraft carrier take offs 2008 in aviation |